Professor Emeritus Walter Moss Actively Engaged in Public History Scholarship

History Professor Emeritus Walter Moss, who taught at Eastern Michigan University from 1970 to 2010, is an active contributor to the public dissemination of historical research. His recently published articles appear below. 

• "Carville Is Wrong and Bernie Is Right: Don’t 'Roll Over and Play Dead'" (March 8, 2025), LA Progressive
• "The Gaza Video Featuring a Crass Trump" (March 8, 2025), LA Progressive
• "Trump’s White-House Treatment of Zelensky: Kак Mебе Hе Cтыднo" (March 1, 2025), LA Progressive
• “Saturday: A Novel That Examines Progress and Uncertainties” (February 25, 2025), Hollywood Progressive
• "President Trump: Champion of the Rich" (February 23, 2025), LA Progressive
• "Trump and the Law: Lessons from the Nazis and Authoritarian Governments" (February 16, 2025), LA Progressive
• "A Loving Nurse Were You: A Prose Poem" (February 12, 2025), Hollywood Progressive
• "Trump, Immigration, and Blustering" (February 9, 2025), LA Progressive
• “The WW2 Netflix Film Number 24 and Our Trumpian Times” (February 4, 2025), Hollywood Progressive
• “Pope Francis’ 2024 Encyclical on Love” (February 1, 2025), LA Progressive 
• "Pope Francis on Trump's Immigration Plans: 'A Disgrace''" (January 29, 2025), LA Progressive
• “Singer’s The Magician of Lublin and the Murkiness of Our Values” (January 27, 2025), Hollywood Progressive
• "How We Democrats Move Forward Depends on How We Look Backward" (January 22, 2025), LA Progressive
• "'A Real Pain': A Tragicomic and Award-Winning Film (January 19, 2025), Hollywood Progressive
• "Review and Reflections on 'Lockerbie: A Search for Truth'" (January 16, 2025), Hollywood Progressive
• “Right-Wing Movements in the USA and Europe” (January 14, 2025), LA Progressive
• "The Ongoing California Fires and Climate Change" (January 10, 2025), LA Progressive
• "The Climate Crisis: From Presidents Carter to Trump" (January 6, 2025), LA Progressive
• '"Terezin' and Music’s Transcendent Power—Now Streaming on Amazon Prime" (January 2, 2025), Hollywood Progressive
• "A Dying Parent: 'His Three Daughters,' Now Streaming on Netflix" (December 31, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Review of Film “Conclave,” Now Streaming on Peacock" (December 28, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• “Why Do So Many People Make Bad Spousal Choices?” (December 26, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Why Cant We Solve Our Climate Crisis?  Politics" (December 18. 2024), LA Progressive
• "Profit-making and the Shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare" (December 14, 2024), LA Progressive
• “August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson Now on Netflix” (December 12, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Review of Organized Crime on Page and Screen" (December 9, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• “'The Father': A Powerful Film about Struggling with Dementia" (December 6, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Crime, Money, and the American Dream" (December 4, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Violence or Non-Violence? Northern Ireland and the 9-Part Hulu Series 'Say Nothing'" (December 2, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• “COP 29, Our Climate Crisis, Technology, Profits, Education, and Wisdom” (November 29, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Fleeing Nazi Bombs:  Steve McQueen’s film 'Blitz,' Now Streaming on Apple TV+" (November 26, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Trumpism or Progressivism: Competing Visions of U. S. Life" (November 22, 2024), LA Progressive
• “Framed: Innocents in U. S. Prisons” (November 17, 2024), LA Progressive
• "The Apple TV + Series 'Disclaimer' and Its Relevance in This Trumpian Time" (November 14, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• “Nobody Wants This”: Review of Netflix 10-Part Series Set in LA" (November 10, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Aldous and Laura Huxley: Important Thoughts from a Loving Couple in LA" (November 8, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Keep Hope Alive: Reflections on Trump’s Reelection" (November 7, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Trump, Obama, and Harris: Egotism Versus Character and Values" (October 30, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Biden’s Apology to Native Americans: 'Long, Long, Long Overdue'” (October 27, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Trump Speaking Like Hitler?" (October 23, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Conservatives and Republicans Who Renounce Trump and Why" (October 20, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon: Rethinking Civilian Casualties" (October 17, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Columbus and the Native American 'Indians'" (October 13, 2024), LA Progressive
• "The 'New Apostolic Reformation,' Our Present Polarization, and Democracy" (October 7, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Drug Middlemen and the Lust for Profits" (September 27, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Philosophies of Life and Politics" (September 23, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Should Seeking Profits Be Our Main Economic Priority?" (September 20, 2024), LA Progressive
• "The Streaming Film 'Touch': Young and Old Love" (September 8, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Tragedy in Sudan: What Can We Do?" (September 5, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Why I Liked the Harris-Walz Interview" (August 31, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Gen Z Men, Machoness, and Trump" (August 28, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Why 'The Web of Meaning' Is a Meaningful Book for Progressives—and Everybody Else" (August 27, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Climate Threats That Deserve More Attention" (August 16, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Trump, Nazis, and Vikings" (August 13, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Harris and Walz Radical Climate Progressives—Yes Indeed!" (August 8, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Good and Evil in the British Film 'Wicked Little Letters'" (August 4, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "'The Fortress' TV Streaming Series, Norway, and Refugees" (July 30, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Immigrants, Kamala, and Donald" (July 24, 2024), LA Progressive
• "'The Teacher’s Lounge': A Film’s Depiction of a Teacher’s Nightmare" (July 21, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "The Film Origin: Race and Cast" (July 17), Hollywood Progressive
• "A Ukrainian Peace Plan" (July 14, 2024), LA Progressive
• "The USA at a Crossroad" (July 10, 2024), LA Progressive 
• "'A Gentleman in Moscow': The Novel and the TV Series" (July 7, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "'Perfect Days' (Now on Hulu) and the Enjoyment of Life" (July 1, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Why Not Voting in November Could Be a Tragic Mistake for the Young" (June 26, 2024), LA Progressive
• "The Film 'Image of Victory' and the Folly of War" (June 22, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Liberalism, Progressivism, and Love" (June 20, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Artificial Intelligence: A New Warning" (June 16, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Love and the Netflix Series 'Midsummer Night'" (June 15, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Freud, Jung, and Sabrina Spielrein: Fact and Fiction in the Film 'A Dangerous Method'" (June 8, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Bernie Is Right: Electing Trump Would Be Catastrophic for Our Climate" (June 2, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Pope Francis, A Beacon of Hope: The Norah O'Donnell Interview" (May 29, 2024), LA Progressive
• "'Franklin': The Eight-Part Apple TV+ Series Is Well Done" (May 26, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Trump Celebrity, Heroes, and Role Models" (May 25, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Race and the Film 'American Fiction' Now on Amazon Prime" (May 20, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Religion and the State as Depicted in Amazon Prime’s 'Cairo Conspiracy'" (May 17, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "The Choices of a Pre-WWI Native American in Michigan" (May 6, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Are We Progressing and What Are We Progressives to Do?" (April 20, 2024), LA Progressive
• "2024 U. S. Anxieties and Hitler 1933" (April 14, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Why Are 22 Nations Happier Than the USA?" (April 7, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Trump’s Immigrant Rants Have It All Wrong" (April 2, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Climate Change and Capitalism: A Reevaluation" (March 22, 2024), LA Progressive
• "In Praise of Valuable Philanthropy" (March 18, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Netflix’s Belgian Film 'Will' and the Moral Choices of Occupied People" (March 17, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Murders Republicans Care About? Any They Blame on Democrats?" (March 15, 2024), LA Progressive
• "'Audrey': See It on Netflix Before It Leaves after the 14th" (March 10, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Discovering the Holocaust: A Hulu Series" (March 4, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "The Amazon Prime Series 'Expats' and Life’s Uncertainties" (February 29, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Climate Change and Capitalism" (February 21, 2024), LA Progressive
• "What the Film 'Oppenheimer' Tells Us (and Doesn’t) about History" (February 20, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Trumpian Isolationism and Beyond" (February 16, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Progressives Follow Bernie’s Advice: Unite around Biden" (February 10, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Christian Nationalism Is an Oxymoron" (February 5, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Laugh, and Laugh Often, in 2024: You’ll Need To" (February 2, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Trump: The Anti-Dialogue and Anti-Compromise Candidate" (January 26, 2024), LA Progressive
• "Reflections on 'A Good Person'" (January 22, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "Two Currently Streaming Films Suggest U. S. Holocausts: Why No National Shame?" (January 18, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "'The Burial': Amazon’s Entertaining Courtroom Drama Features Two First-Rate Actors Versus a Powerful Corporation" (January 14, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "'A Thousand and One,' One of the Best Films of 2023" (January 9, 2024), Hollywood Progressive
• "'The Holdovers': An Uplifting Film" (December 31, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "The War in Gaza: The PBS Newshour’s Perspective" (December 27, 2023), LA Progressive
• "COP28: What’s the Latest Regarding Our Climate Crisis?" (December 19, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Why It’s Not a Good Idea to 'Blow Up a Pipeline'" (December 15, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Freemasonry, Religion, and Today's Secularism" (December 13, 2023)
• "Love, Fame, and Cancer in Netflix’s 'American Symphony'" (December 11, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Ending the Middle East Misery: Sane Comments from Senator Sanders" (December 7, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Reflections on 'Asteroid City'" (December 5, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Identity Politics (of a Certain Type) Is Killing Us: Beware of Right-Wing Authoritarianism" (December 1, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Wise Words in a Terrible Year: A Lesson for Progressives and Others" (November 28, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Hope in Our Catastrophic Times: Thoughts of Robert Jay Lifton" (November 25, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Kidnapped Kids: The USA, Canada, and Now Ukrainians" (November 24, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "'Rustin': A Film to Celebrate and Remind Us of Work Undone" (November 20, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Trump, Dehumanization, and Atrocities" (November 15, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Why BlackKkKlansman Is More Relevant than Ever" (November 12, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "The Humanism of Writer James McBride" (November 10, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Love, Pain, and Hope: Thoughts on 'All the Light We Cannot See'" (November 6, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "What Serge Schmemann Writes about the Israeli-Palestinian War Makes Sense to Me" (November 3, 2023), LA Progressive
• "A Refugee Family: 'Peace by Chocolate'" (November 2, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "New Research Indicates Trump-Hitler Comparison Is Not Outlandish" (October 28, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Native Americans, Our Continuing Holocausts Denial and the Battle for Our Nation’s Soul" (October 23, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Two 2023 Films on Netflix: Fair Play and Johnny" (October 18, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Old Age: Presidents Carter, Obama, Trump, and Biden" (October 13, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Why Artificial Intelligence Is So Dangerous" (October 8, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Educating for the Common Good, Not the Most Profit" (October 5, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Netflix’s 'Forgotten Love' Is on My Four-Star Film List" (October 1, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "'Ordinary Men: The Forgotten Holocaust' and Lessons for Today" (September 23, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Poems That Speak Volumes" (September 11, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Brooklyn: Donald Trump, Dorothy Day, and the Novel Deacon King Kong" (September 4, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "My Philosophical Foundation for Fighting Today’s Climate Change" (August 28, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Why Environmentalist McKibben’s The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon Seems So Right" (August 22, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "What Should We Do about the Trump Fiasco? Wise Advice from a Conservative Judge" (August 16, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Its TV Series Are As Meaningful As Ever" (August 14, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Climate Change: Bernie Once Again Tells It Like It Is" (August 11, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Climate Change Denial and Republican Head-in-the-Sandism" (August 7, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Antisemitism—No! Criticizing Israeli Policies—Yes! A Review of The Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel" (August 6, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Gary Maring’s 'Seeking the Common Good'" (July 31, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "My Dog and God: A Lesson in Humility" (July 23, 2023), LA Progressive
• "In This Simmering Summer Biden Needs to Cry Out 'Climate Change'" (July 19, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Why Jonathan Eig’s New Biography of MLK Is So Valuable" (July 16, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Review of Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life" (July 15, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "What Netflix’s Crime-Thriller Series 'Sleeping Dog' Reveals about Berlin" (July 11, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "'Fisherman’s Friends: One and All,' A Film of Beauty, Song, and Truths" (June 26, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Reading Peter Frankopan's Ambitious Planetary History" (June 25, 2023), History News Network
• "Capitalism, Imperialism, Environmental Degradation, and Historical Injustices" (June 21, 2023), LA Progressive
• "The Film 'Living': Artful Reflections on Dying and Living" (June 15, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "The Film 'The Pencil' and Putin’s Russia" (June 9, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Raising the Debt Ceiling: A Necessary Compromise" (June 3, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Role Models Are Important, Here Are Mine" (May 21, 2023), LA Progressive
• "AI the Latest Instance of our Capacity for Innovation Outstripping our Capacity for Ethics" (May 21, 2023), History News Network
• "What 85 Years Have Taught Me" (May 17, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Hulu’s “The Good Mothers”" (May 14, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "“Extrapolations”: Will This TV Series Spark Climate-Change Action?" (May 9, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Biden Is Right, His Battle with Trump Is for Our Country’s Soul" (April 30, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Capitalism and Happiness" (April 25, 2023), LA Progressive
• "'Transatlantic' and Hitler’s Unintended Gift to the U.S." (April 21, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "10 Reasons Why We Don’t Fight Climate Change" (April 19, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Netflix’s 'The Swimmers,' War, Migrants, and Refugees" (April 8, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Heroism, Celebrities, Values, and Truth: Reflections on Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers" (March 29, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Amazon’s 'Modern Love Tokyo'" (March 22, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Marx, Other Critics of Capitalism, and Our Environmental Crises" (March 19, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Amazon's “Modern Love Amsterdam” and Varieties of Love" (March 11, 2023), Hollwood Progressive
• "Sanders Is Right about U.S. Capitalism" (March 5, 2023), LA Progressive
• "Don't Forget the Private Sorrows of Ukraine" (March 5, 2023), History News Network
• "The Film Mr Jones: Attacking Ukrainians and Fake News, 1933" (March 2, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "'Birdman' and Our Muddled Minds Concerning Love" (February 19, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Argentina, 1985: A Film Where Progressives Triumph" (February 11, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "The Film Woman at War, Gandhi, and Mandela" (February 9, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Reflecting on Netflix's "Women at War" (February 5, 2023), History News Network
• "The Film Vengeance Offers Great Insight into Our Political Polarization" (February 3, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "As the Progressive Era Ideal of Regulation Vanishes, What Will Stop the March of AI?" (January 22, 2023), History News Network
• "The Romantic Agonies of Monk Thomas Merton" (January 22, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Our Oneness with Nature: The Wondrous Poetry of Mary Oliver" (January 11, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Death and White Noise"  (January 1, 2023), Hollywood Progressive
• "Conflicting Values Key to Political Differences" (December 26, 2022), LA Progressive
• "The Wonder: A Film Pitting Reason Against Faith" (December 22, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Three Cheers for Yo-Yo Ma and Bill Russell" (December 19, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "The Banshees of Inisherin: A Tragicomic Film" (December 17, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Drive My Car and Chekhov" (December 16, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "How Should Popular Culture Convey History?" (December 11, 2022), History News Network
• "Reflections on Netflix’s Lady Chatterley's Lover" (December 6, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Humor, Wisdom, and Progressivism" (December 5, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "A Hero for Our Time" (November 28, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Climate Change, Fake Claims and Greenwashing" (November 21, 2022), LA Progressive
• "The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Marvelous Guide for L.A. Readers" (November 13, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Reflections on Netflix’s “The Good Nurse” and Bernie Sanders’ Solution" (November 6, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Between January 6 and Ukraine, Macho Men Threaten Democracy" (October 30, 2022), History News Network
• "Dear Mr. Putin and Trumpsters: You Need to Fight Global Warming Not Ukrainians and Democrats" (October 27, 2022), LA Progressive
• “Catch these Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass Docs While You Can” (October 23, 2022), History News Network
• “What the Cuban Missile Crisis Teaches Us about Ending the Ukraine War” (October 9, 2022), History News Network
• “Opposing U. S. Political Perspectives" (October 8, 2022), LA Progressive
• "UN Secretary General António Guterres: Catholic, Socialist, and Progressive" (September 28, 2022), LA Progressive
• “Varieties of Love in the Indian Film Sita Ramam”  (September 17, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Russians' Disapproval of Gorbachev Shouldn't Dominate How He is Remembered" (September 11, 2022), History News Network
• "The Film Belfast, Conflict, Migration, and Change" (September 10, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Why Putin's War is So Morally Abhorrent" (August 30, 2022), LA Progressive
• "Who and What to Believe about Ukraine" (August 28, 2022), History News Network
• "Are We Progressives Patient Enough?" (August 24, 2022), LA Progressive
• "The Inflation Reduction Act: A Victory of Pragmatism Over Ideology" (August 14, 2022), LA Progressive
• "On Putin's Vacant Moral Imagination" (August 7, 2022), History News Network 
• "The Ministry for the Future and the Great Value of Climate Fiction (Cli Fi)" (July 23, 2022), LA Progressive
• "Can Love Be Eternal? Some Reflections from a Historian" (July 21, 2022), Hollywood Progressive
• "Politics and Priorities: The January 6th Hearings" (July 1, 2022), LA Progressive
• "How Should the USA Support Ukraine?" (June 18, 2022), LA Progressive
• "The Environmental and Humanistic Sensibility of Pasternak and Lessons from Dr. Zhivago for Today" (June 5, 2022), History News Network
• "Putin's Ukrainian War and Ecocide" (May 29, 2022), History News Network 
• "1968: A Year of Dashed Hopes" (May 1, 2022), History News Network
• "Even With the Challenge of a Nuclear Crisis, 1962 Was a Year of Hope" (April 17, 2022), History News Network
• "The Two Russias" (March 20, 2022), History News Network
• "Understanding Putin's Historical Vision of Ukraine is the Necessary Foundation of Diplomacy" (February 20, 2022), History News Network
• "The 20th Century's Lessons for the Climate Crisis? Pragmatism, Unity, and Urgency" (February 13, 2022), History News Network