Writings of Ronald Bruce Meyer

General Essays

Animal Rights — and Wrongs
Camera Cops!
The Cassandra Conundrum
Check Your Brain -— Then Your Grammar!
The Faith-Based Initiative of 9/11
Icon Fever
Leaving Chicago
The "Mystery" of Flight 19
No Capitalists in Foxholes
Of Dickens Meyer (a cat)
Seat of Power
Signs of the Times
The Subversive Purpose of Bettie Page Uncensored
There Will Always Be Books
Tour Scandinavia
Verbal Slouchery
The War on Galileo
What I Want for Christmas 2004

Book Reviews

Deliberate Intent: A Lawyer Tells the True Story of Murder by the Book by Rod Smolla
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Outside, Looking In by Gil Gaudia
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal
Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
Suburban Nation by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
Wealth and Democracy A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips
Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer

Movie Reviews

The Advocate (1993)
Aladdin (1992)
Amadeus (1984)
American Beauty (1999)
Angel Eyes (2001)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Best in Show (2000)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Chicago (2002)
Chocolat (2000)
Converging with Angels (2002)
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Dragonfly (2002)
Druids (2001)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
The Family Man (2000)
Fearless (1993)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Filumena (1946/2002) by Eduardo de Filippo (Theater Review)
Finding Forrester (2000)
Frida (2002)
Gladiator (2000)
The Good Girl (2002)
In the Bedroom (2001)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Kid (2000)
The Laramie Project (2002)
Little Big Man (1970)
Lord of the Dance (1996/2002) (Theater Review)
Marathon Man (1976)
Memento (2000)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Nurse Betty (2000)
Possession (2002)
The Professional (Léon) (1994)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Signs (2002)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Unfaithful (2002)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Working Girl (1988)