The Libertarian Kick in “Roadhouse (1989)” There is more to the 1989 Patrick Swayze starring masterpiece, “Roadhouse” than to being a glorious action film. Beyond…
Kym Robinson
Category: Philosophy, Society and Liberty
Promising Young Woman A young college woman is raped by a man. No justice is found, the rapist is an otherwise ‘promising young man’ with…
“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all…
The Frightened County is what Alan Renouf, one of Australia’s most prominent public servants, called Australia in his 1979 book of the same title. Renouf’s…
Joe Louis vs the tax man and the Caracas Caper Professional fighters are accustom to pain, not just from the blows of an opponent or…
Recently, many of us digitally witnessed five armed police officers beat Tyre Nichols to death. Oftentimes it’s easy for us to be voyeurs to violence…
In his 1964 book The Naked Society, Vance Packard challenged the ever increasing loss of privacy as technology and large institutions began wide spread surveillance…
When Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was deposed in 1989, it is claimed that he pleaded for Tom Selleck and Jack Ramsay, a character he played…
Fighting Age Male “Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in…
Christmas is a special period in many cultures, it’s one of festive spirits, family and giving. A time to give thanks and for those who…