David MatthewsMay 12, 20172 minWeighing In uninvited: thoughts on l'affaire ComeyA case can be made for the firing of James Comey. Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein laid one out in a memo he sent to AG Jefferson...
David MatthewsMay 6, 20173 minMan of the left?left often Left a. The people and groups who advocate liberal, often radical measures to effect change in the established order,...
David MatthewsMay 5, 20171 minAnother dark day in a succession of dark daysI have nothing much to add to what has been said elsewhere, but the day cannot pass without notice as House Republicans made good on...
David MatthewsMay 1, 201714 minWordsworth and Keats and Me; or, thinking about poets and poemsMore and more these days I turn, and return, to Wordsworth and Keats. In them I find a patch of common ground, sometimes even kinship....
David MatthewsApr 22, 20172 minFurther thoughts on that missile strike...The Syria Strikes: A Conspiracy Theory is a clever little video courtesy of The Corbett Report that I came to by way of a post at Sic...
David MatthewsApr 15, 20173 minFrantz, a film by François Ozon; & a note about Hidden FiguresOf late, and by that I have in mind a dismaying stretch of six months or more, I have seen few films apart from February's Portland...