Since September of last year when the film won top prizes at both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, it has been clear that Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” would dominate awards season. Mind you, awards season itself was in question, with all the delays and compromises that affect…

Many, many years ago, I remember our dad saying that he had seen a Ku Klux Klan burning cross near where he grew up. James H. Madison’s book, The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland, places the strongest period of the Klan in Indiana in the 1920’s which fit with the time our dad was talking about …