by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 12, 2013 | Literary Projects, Luke Historians, Politics, World Views
Anyone who has followed my writings for awhile knows that I have a thing for men of science. I adored Sir Isaac Newton at an early age, I wrote a screenplay about Chief Chemist Harvey Wiley as a teenage girl (I think it needs a second revision), I’ve dissected...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jan 15, 2013 | Dramatizing History, Filmmaking, Politics, World Views
Our languishing culture is made up of individuals, not a collective mass audience. Most of them are blasé, complacent individuals. To simply confront them with holier-than-thou accusations or rah-rah chants is fruitless. Moral outrage doesn’t make sense to them...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 26, 2012 | Comedy, Journal, Literary Projects, Politics, Satire, World Views
“All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” ~Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776) This past summer I...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 17, 2012 | Appearances, IndiRes, Politics, World Views
Finally, an organization for conservatives that actually utilizes our limited-government, individualist philosophy in its own design. Behold my latest project with Matthew Perdie: IndiRes.com @IndiResolve on Twitter To empower individual efforts for the purpose of...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 6, 2012 | Politics, World Views
The hours are ticking down to the moment when Americans decide which candidate to hire as chief executive of the U.S. government for the next four years. Take a few minutes to watch some scenes that will further inform you of the issues behind the big choice in...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 31, 2012 | Dramatizing History, Luke Historians, Politics, World Views
October 31, 1517 was a forerunner to America’s Independence Day. The following scholarly excerpts can be found in Amos and Gardiner’s Never Before in History: America’s Inspired Birth, which enthralled me at the age of 14. “The American...
