John Meroney is a writer and journalist who contributed to The Weekly Standard between 1999 and 2003. His pieces for the magazine covered cultural topics including Civil War films and public policy issues such as cancer litigation. He has also written on the intersection of politics, Hollywood, and American culture for various publications.
RONALD F. MAXWELL, the screenwriter and director behind the sprawling, $70 million Civil War epic "Gods and Generals," has devoted the last twenty-five years to dramatizing what Winston Churchill once described as the noblest and least avoidable of all the great conflicts. It has been ten years…
ONE OF THE longest-running and most expensive taxpayer-funded projects at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has nothing to do with curing cancer.