Letters at 3AM

The Gospel according to Mel is not as it was

"...as a source of Christian feeling and belief. The greatest example is what are commonly known as the "[14]..."

March 5, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Attorney General John Ashcroft is stuffing our Bill of Rights into the shredder

"...In the final Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses, the presidential candidates neglected..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Learning to listen to your soul in all aspects of your life.

"...was 40 -- but suddenly I was no age at all. All at once my experience and achievement lost..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The institution of marriage has been undone by the changes brought about by modern technology and therefore has nothing to fear from the legalization of gay marriages.

"...don't even know are also married -- how does that threaten your marriage? If you have kids, how do..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Seniors graduate into the world of the Bush junta.

"...Brave New World and 1984, how Julian said something that made her socks go up and down: "Even a..."

June 13, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Within or Beneath the Din

"...depend upon each other to keep the integrity of that language. So there is no worse corruption than speech..."

May 30, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Thoughts on the war's explosions of bombs, dreams, and preconceptions.

"...On a conundrum: To pretend coherence at this incoherent moment in history ... is an exercise..."

April 4, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Reflections on how Western civilization lost its moral authority.

"...... I was 17, a high school senior in Waterville, Maine, where I lived with a family that had..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

With inaction, inattention, cowardice, and stupidity, Americans are watching tyranny take shape in plain sight before our eyes, while the overwhelming majority say and do nothing.

"...by questions when the Journal of the American Medical Association reported a month ago that air pollution kills as..."

June 28, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

A proposal for grading high school literature students gauges their “engagement” with the material.

"...Background: Four months a year I teach literature to high school kids at a nonprofit private school..."

April 5, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Dictates

"...December 6. Attorney General John Ashcroft's defense of the Bush Administration's anti-Constitutional..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Michael Ventura weighs in with his Top 5 list of 2001's best film and television moments.

"...not be so dumb after all. Scholars now believe that lists were the earliest form of writing -- in..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3am

We are swiftly losing our civil liberties as a result of the USA-PATRIOT Act, although this administration has shown it is not impervious to citizen complaints.

"...Merry Christmas, done anything lately to defend your Constitution?..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The 21st Century Announces Itself

"...the New York skyline, and the way of life that goes with it, was mirrored by every major city..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.

"...victory, really, and against all odds, because it doesn't matter who writes the needed books as long as they..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

They may not truthfully reflect the way we live, but sometimes the big and small screen present honest explorations of the way we dream. The year 2000 gave us some exceptionally fine works in this regard.

"...Great cinema, like great painting, teaches that seeing is a..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Austin's Best Novelist

"...while he was an aide to Lyndon Johnson and featuring a Johnsonian character, Arthur "Goddamn" Fenstemaker. It is still..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Preparing for War With Europe

"...sentences to interest and alarm those beyond our borders: "At the earliest possible date, my administration will deploy missile..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

It's time for the American South to reject its "rebel" hypocrisy of states rights and atone for the sins of the slave economy of the Confederacy.

"...Last October, an angry reader challenged my statement that during the first half of the 20th century..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The paradox of possiblities exhibited by the 20th century -- from Auschwitz to Ginger & Fred.

"...and Columbine -- the year when many Americans said, at one and the same time, that they were basking..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

What does a Dark Age demand of a good person?

"...At the end of one Millennium and the beginning of..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

A week of truth.

"...they own you. They own the part of you that needs the lie to face them. The part of..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

How to be and not to be.

"...to write a paragraph a day not meant for publication is a discipline that frees the spirit to go..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3am: The World That Calls Itself "the World"

We're capable of so much – and look what we've settled for

"...knew most of this planet never was white. His declaration was for the world that calls itself "the world"..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3am: Joe Ely's Reverb: An Odyssey

The road goes on forever, and there's never a destination

"..."Great times up in West Texas. I have some great..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Snyder 'R' Us

Despite the illusion of autonomy, we have been colonized by the Oligarchy

"...In The Four-Gated City, Doris Lessing wrote: "In any situation anywhere there..."

June 13, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Sadness That Stays

When the world inside you is no longer the world around you, that's called aging

"..."Can Google Solve Death?" Time ran that headline on its cover last September...."

April 18, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: BigBoy's 'Slap Noir'

James BigBoy Medlin's 'Slap Noir' changed my life in a most concrete fashion

"...project of his own. We met to discuss it at a Pico Boulevard eatery near 20th Century Fox, a..."

March 7, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: If We Make It Through December

Everywhere I looked for a merry Christmas, I found contradictions too disturbing to ignore and paradoxes too entrenched to resolve

"...The thing about Christmas is that you know what's going to happen to the kid...."

Dec. 13, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Wake of the Red Witch

Everything that begins also ends

"...to this Terry Allen song over and over, surprised at all it evokes, and wondering why, at its end,..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

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