Movie School: Teaching Through Cinema The Right Way

I’m a movie nerd. Blame it on cable television, or the ‘80s, or Boomer parents who let us Gen-Xers watch pretty much anything we could find. I saw it all, and for better or worse it shaped my worldview. Movies do that, because seeing John McClane jump off an exploding building with

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Poor Stupid Travis: The Disconnect Between Two Americas

“Taylor Swift is one of the most popular women in the world, if not the most popular,” the podcast host said. What? Really? With everything going on in the world right now, Taylor Swift is up there on the global podium? The disconnect between that podcaster’s world and mine was startling, and

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With Our Own Eyes: Revealing Conspiracy Fact Through History

One of the first things you’re taught when studying criminal justice is that eyewitness testimony is wholly unreliable. It’s not true. Eyewitness testimony is essential, and defense attorneys and government agents know it. Those with a vested interest in duping large groups of people have maintained this lie – that we can’t

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Trolling the Fedboys: An American History Primer

Around January of 2021, the Department of Homeland Security began circulating an infographic to the agencies collectively known as Federal Law Enforcement. The flyer was intended to assist agents in identifying “militant violent extremism” among American citizens. It should come as no surprise that most of the symbols and rhetoric they continue

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