I have to extend my admiration and respect for Sam Esmail, who is a visionary with what he's done with 'Mr. Robot,' and this brilliant resurgence of Christian Slater only helped us get where we are today - very talented individual.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.