Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Our "best-of" lists in the last Chronicle concurred that 2002 was an exceptional year in cinema. (My list..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

You don't think that this whole thing with Iraq could have anything to do with the fact that Iraq sits on 10% of the world's oil reserves? Naw. It's gotta be them weapons of mass destruction.

"...Congress was divided on whether to go to war. What swayed many representatives was the testimony about Iraqi atrocities..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

You can't always be who you want, but if you try sometime you just might find you can be who you need.

"...Atlanta: My friend Naunie couldn't recall exactly when her great-uncle..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The total absence of popular backlash to the paganism of The Mists of Avalon shows that the American fundamentalist influeunce has begun to ebb.

"...address, to none other than God, delivered in a cathedral while facing the Cross:..."

Aug. 3, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The current election crisis proves the strength and integrity of our political institutions.

"...leader, a country sinks into the authority of public relations -- it has a vacuum at its center." Norman..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Hot news about global warming.

"..."How's the weather in Lubbock?" I asked my friend Deborah. "White heat,"..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

Why a sizable number of heterosexuals feel threatened by the concept of gay marriage

"...The state of Vermont is not exactly a hotbed of radicalism..."

April 28, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

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Evaluating the Ten Commandments as a teaching tool in the American classroom

"...The phrase "hang ten" is surfer slang that originally described a particular placement of one's feet (10..."

April 14, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Connectivity/Vulnerability: Part 2

The boundaries of everything are wavering and disappearing

"...That happened on June 28, 1914, in a country that..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Capacity to Take It

Perseverance is the spine of the human condition

"...Persevere. That word has been with us a long time, with..."

Dec. 27, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 3

The Fifth Amendment no longer exists as a functioning law of the land

"...That is the premise as we examine the Constitution...."

May 17, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Reveries

Beauty is something you don't have to deserve

"...The expression "falling into reverie" is not accurate. "Slide" is more like it. You slide into a..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Things Like That

Under Obama, we have been subjected to a Patriot Act on steroids

"...Stewart. Stewart lobbed him a softball when he noted that, in the 2008 election, many Obama supporters expected an..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years

April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to

"...her to box, cowboys taught her to bust broncs, aviators taught her to fly biplanes. She performed all her..."

March 23, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Flash Mob Dance Revolution: Part 3

Investment, invention, and labor: the three pillars of commerce

"...your so-called free market, workers have few, if any, alternatives; most have to accept that the game is fixed..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road's End

Stirling Silliphant had a marvelous gift for writing, but he sold it out

"...Inferno. He won a 1967 Oscar for In the Heat of the Night, a screenplay important in its day...."

April 22, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: A Sweetness of Brick

Old New York is gone; only the replicas remain

"...New York City is a place that keeps showing up elsewhere...."

Jan. 28, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Where We Actually Live: Part II

The country the tea partiers want back no longer exists

"..."One 12-nation study found Americans the least likely to discuss politics..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: For All Reasons

Terry Allen's music reflects the Lubbock mindset

"...There used to be a sign that marked the West Texas border line on U.S. 84...."

July 30, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: A Fallen Catholic in a Fallen Church

I can't hide from my sins and, now, neither can the church

"...country. To do this in my apartment seemed somehow inadequate. I wanted to pray among others who share our..."

July 16, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Dead and Alive on the Fourth of July

A eulogy spoken over the coffin of our empire

"...dead. Huck Finn is not. The "can do" all-Americans that Tom Sawyer symbolized are cyber wizards who cannot win..."

July 2, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Of Tiers and Tears

The isolation of the Professional Tier is the single most destructive element in American society today

"...Oligarchy is an American fact. It cannot be accurately described with antique categories such as upper, middle, and..."

May 7, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: 'O' Is for Oligarchy

'Oligarchy' is a big, bad word that defines the country we still call a republic

"...of American Political Science Review: "An oligarchy is an organization characterized by the fact that ... the highest degree..."

April 9, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: The Numbers This Time

There exist co-enabling models of therapeutic and addictive wars

"...numbers. All the times since I was a kid that I've read about World War II and watched documentaries..."

Dec. 4, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Auschwitz Up the Block

To retain our humanity, we remember the unthinkable

"...the ages of 5 and 13, my family lived at seven addresses and I attended eight New York City..."

Nov. 20, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

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America's ideal of liberty shaped the country's finest authors

"...Let's say we're talking about literature, American literature, and we're just talking – not concerned..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

We may come to regret there are so few intelligent conservative voices making themselves heard

"...and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee says of Obama's policies that "Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff" (The New..."

March 27, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

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All those brilliant 'financial instruments' turned into monsters that no one can stop

"...put it, "fuzzy": "'It's not based on any particular data point,' a Treasury spokeswoman [said]. 'We just wanted to..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

People in the small towns of the West and Midwest are watching their communities, and their way of life, shrivel and die.

"...with no shoulders, a straight line on land as flat as the palm of God's hand – so flat,..."

March 30, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

This is the number of deaths a year caused by how we do (or don't do) health care. A decade of that, and it's as though terrorists nuked Chicago.

"...For 90,000 Americans a year, the infections are a death sentence. ... Two million patients get a hospital-acquired infection..."

Jan. 19, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

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