J.B. Spins

At this point, it seems pretty clear Edmund Burke was right to caution restraint when it comes to Revolutions. Aside from the Czechoslovakia...

In his own way, Washington Irving profoundly influenced comic book history. He is generally credited with popularizing “Gotham” as an inform...

It was hard for Jewish Americans see how the world turned its back on their pain and suffering in the days following the 10/7 terrorist murd...

When this classic franchise premiered on television over sixty years ago, it spawned its own genre. Some of its stories had elements of horr...

He spawned two films, an animated series, and two dramatic spoken-word records. Yet, Prince Val of Thule never gets his just due as one of t...

It seems like the Burning of Falmouth is been largely forgotten today, in an era when politicians nourish historical grievances over atrocit...

This investigation will start much like that of the Scandinavian series The Bridge and its American remake, except the span between Aleutian...

New Left hippies were narcissistic hedonists with an irrational hatred of cops. That would have made them perfect vampire food. Consequently...

Growing up in Soviet Ukraine, “Genya” had to be part of the “1%.” That is not a demagogic reference to economic standing. It is an acknowled...

It shouldn't surprise anyone that the autocrat is also a kleptocrat. Indeed, plundering Russia was always part of the plan—the KGB’s pla...

If you aren’t paying attention to what is taught in our schools, that is just fine with many other nations. They aren’t necessarily friendly...

George Orwell was a socialist, who wrote the most insightful and devastating critique of socialism in the history of English literature. He ...

Three people died during Woodstock, yet people talk about it like it was a triumph of peace and love. In contrast, four people died at Altam...

It didn't start in 2022. It just got a heck of a lot worse. Russia has been attempting to conquer, subjugate, and obliterate Ukraine for...

Godzilla is surprisingly fast for his size and he is always furious. Still, he is not an obvious accomplice for a caper, because he is impos...

Consecrated ground doesn’t get much more consecrated than Vatican City. It is also highly fortified. For a few hundred survivors, it is the ...

The rebels in Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress knew TANSTAAFL, “there’s no such thing as a for lunch.” Unfortunately, it is un...

Carl Laemmle was the only old school Hollywood mogul who denounced Hitler and the National Socialists prior to WWII. Fittingly, most of his ...

The town of Graves End is even spookier than Riverdale, but it ought to be. It is hard to imagine the CW show without the years of groundwo...

Like Superman and Batman, His Holiness, the 14 th Dalai Lama is now the star of his own graphic novel, but his superpowers are mindfulness,...