Jason M. Baxter

In Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan has taken the meticulously researched seven-hundred-page book American Prometheus and rendered it into his best film yet. Continue Reading »

We need to realize that Dante is constantly code-switching from a classical in-the-head way of speaking to one that is more in-the-blood and in-the-nerves.  Continue Reading »

Tolstoy's War and Peace subtly demonstrates how there is more to life than meets a modernist mechanistic worldview.  Continue Reading »

The best place to read T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land—in order to commemorate its one hundredth anniversary this year—is the airport. Continue Reading »