Disney writer Linda Woolverton (Mulan, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) and director Tim Burton thoroughly reconfigure Lewis Carroll’s literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Disney’s new, computerized adaptation, which bears some...
Scott Holleran
Scott Holleran interviewed 2025 Carnegie Hero medal recipient Henry Reese, whom Salman Rushdie credits with saving his life from a radical Islamic assassin. Mr. Holleran wrote the Western Pennsylvania Press Club’s Best Sports Journalism award-winning “Roberto Clemente in Retrospect” in 2021 and his short story “Boom-Boom Goes to Jail” won a 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award prize. Scott Holleran’s first book, Long Run: Short Stories: Volume One, a collection of 16 previously published short stories, features a foreword by Ayn Rand and literary scholar Shoshana Milgram, Ph.D. Scott Holleran lives in the San Fernando Valley, where he’s writing his first novel, Speakeasy, choreographing dance and coaching weight loss. Watch him dance in his movie debut—the first film inspired by his fiction writing—in Henry Dances. Read his non-fiction at ScottHolleran.substack.com. Follow and listen to him read his fiction aloud at ShortStoriesByScottHolleran.substack.com
Movie Review: Avatar
Avatar is big, loud, and bodacious–and totally bankrupt as a cinematic experience. I tried to like this spectacular monstrosity at every turn, especially with a new actor named Sam Worthington in the lead–he’s much better in Terminator:...
Books: Another Ayn Rand Novel for Our Times
A book for Americans.
The History of HMOs: What You–and Your Employer–Probably Don’t Know About Your Health Plan
The new year begins as employees begin a process called open enrollment–when many employees designate a health plan through their employer. Unfortunately, most are forced to enroll in a managed care plan, i.e., an HMO or PPO. That’s right: force actually...
Summer of Socialized Medicine
Amid talk that the administration will re-name its plan for socialized medicine after the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and re-package the national health care campaign as an American tribute to a 47-year veteran of the U.S. Senate who persistently opposed...
Thug Worship in Iran and in America
Looters took over downtown Los Angeles the other night following a professional basketball victory. A news radio reporter and several policemen were attacked, stores were looted, and, as far as I can tell, police stood down and allowed the looters to do the damage....
Abortion and the Death of Dr. George Tiller
Police have announced an arrest in yesterday’s murder of Wichita, Kansas, Dr. George Tiller. Apparently, the shooter is an anti-abortion Christian who approved of assassinating abortion doctors (sources: New York Times, Kansas City Star). If true, this is yet...
New ‘Star Trek’ Movie is Bland, Not Bold
Kirk is a playboy, Spock is tortured and everyone sounds like they’re reading from a script.
California’s Socialized Medicine Rising
This month, in a 73-page position paper, California ‘s insurance commissioner, John Garamendi, proposed a government takeover of medicine. That the bureaucrat who would be governor prescribed more government intervention is not surprising. But, because the...
Oscar Without Glamour
Why Hollywood is losing its luster.
AFCM Interviews HSA Bank President Kirk Hoewisch
The year was 1901 and someone in Howards Grove, Wisconsin, observed that the first automobile to appear in town was driven by a man from nearby Sheboygan. A century later, the town is making its mark on another new vehicle–which has the potential to...
New Year For Choosing a Health Plan
For many workers, the new year initiates a process called open enrollment–when many employees designate a health plan through their employer–that’s as comprehensible as the tax code. During the annual cattle call, employees are pummeled with...
U.S. Policy Towards Iran: 25 Years Of Denial
THIS WEEK MARKS 25 YEARS of America’s appeasement toward Iran, which began in earnest on November 4, 1979, the day Iran declared war on America. Ayatollah Khomeini’s thugs stormed the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, and held 52 Americans as prisoners for...
Shall We Dance: An Invitation to the Dance
Though no one will mistake Shall We Dance for a classic Fred Astaire musical, director Peter Chelsom’s romantic dance comedy makes you want to grab a dish and dance ’til dawn. The jovial remake, based on director Masayuki Suo’s Japanese movie of the...
John Kerry For President
The first presidential election since the act of war on September 11, 2001, offers a clear choice for the so-called war on terrorism, a term which is precisely the problem. As others have pointed out, terrorism is a tactical means to an end: America is engaged in a...
George Lucas vs. The Stormtroopers
To paraphrase Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead, George Lucas created Star Wars and George Lucas has the right to destroy Star Wars.
America’s Funeral: Ronald Reagan in Perspective
Ronald Reagan was right that America is man’s last, best hope on earth — it still is — and his goal, to make America great again, means he understood that something had gone terribly wrong.
Welcome Back, Potter: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A mythical hero whose mind is his means of understanding the world and whose happiness is his primary goal.
The Day After Tomorrow: The New Left’s Doomsday Evangelism for the Church of Environmentalism
Prepare for more religious propaganda: The Day After Tomorrow, which opens today, is the New Left’s evangelism with ecology as its religion. Junk science is holy in Hollywood and director Roland Emmerich’s motion picture is the latest example; the press...
Failure Looms at Fallujah
A turning point in what President Bush has called the War on Terrorism is at hand. How and whether the American military handles enemy confrontations in Iraq during the coming weeks will tell Islamic terrorists and their state sponsors everything they need to know...
The Pledge of Allegiance Revisited: America’s Allegiance Belongs to Individual Rights Not Religion
The Pledge of Allegiance’s assertion that America exists Under God is wrong and allowing government schools to promote such notions constitutes the unequivocal establishment of religion. The Founding Fathers fought for the right to not believe in God, the right to not p…
Jesus Christ Superscar
The Passion of the Christ’s theme is that suffering, not joy, is man’s proper fate.
Movies: Miracle on Ice Offered an Escape From 1979
The so-called miracle on ice only felt like a miracle because it represented the central conflict of the worlds bloodiest century: between individualism and collectivism and, for once, the good prevailed.
Unhappy Birthday and Merry Christmas, Elian
Elian Gonzalez, who floated in Florida’s waters four years ago on Thanksgiving, is ten years old on Saturday. The media spectacle that surrounded his arrival and departure has given way to obscurity; the world has forgotten Elian. Those who ignore Elian’s...
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