The project to consign to the trash heap of history many of our most honored national heroes, to dehumanize them, threatens to prevent us from seeing ourselves in our full humanity. We must do better. Read More… It has monplace in America’s elite institutions to attack and delegitimize our forebears for various crimes, some of which are undoubtedly real, while others are more imagined and anachronistic. As for the former, we can cite the fact that many Americans—including some of...

The history of Russia in Ukraine is an old and terrible one. The 2019 film Mr. Jones tells the story of the Holodomor: “death by hunger.” Why would Stalin starve millions in a man-made famine? Why else? He needed the money. Read More… It’s 1934 and Gareth Jones (James Norton), journalist and foreign adviser to British prime minister Lloyd George, is trying to convince a room full of stuffed shirts with fancy government titles that Adolf Hitler is looking to...

The abilities to know truth and choose the good are gifts of our reason. They are natural to us and make us fully human. Read More… Perhaps the most confusing aspect of natural law is the phrase itself: “natural law.” For many people, the word “natural” implies human biology or the physical environment. For others, it means “instinct.” Likewise, when some people hear the word “law,” it implies “constraint” or obedience to legislation, regulations, and codes decreed by institutions with...

The next installment of the dino-tech Jurassic Park series ing soon, which is always a good time to ask about the ends of our God-given dominion over nature, and whether nature is beginning to demonstrate its dominion over us. Read More… In case you missed it, there’s an official trailer out for the next (and supposedly final) installment of the Jurassic Parksaga. Jurassic World Dominion, in theaters June 10, may be your last chance to enjoy the larger-than-life danger, drama,...

It was supposed to shine a light on American susceptibility to con men and demagoguery. Instead, this Oscar-nominated film is strangely clueless about its own self-deception. Read More… Guillermo del Toro won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for The Shape Of Water (2017), a movie infamous for a leading lady so desperate for intimacy that she makes love to a fish, probably the best metaphor for the ongoing moral collapse of the women who like such movies. It was...

Warning: This review of the new blockbuster contains minor spoilers and major grievances. Read More… The story begins on Halloween, almost exactly 20 years after the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. A new killer—an internet sensation, as it turns out—is on the loose, violently ridding Gotham City of its excesses. The Batman, now two years into his mission, must not only solve the mysteries behind the killings but end the killings themselves. He has a great ally in a...

A list of the world’s worst state actors when es to religious persecution is out, and Christians are suffering terribly for their faith around the world. Christians in the West should be concerned but also grateful that what they put up with from secularists is nothing like persecution on this scale. Read More… The group Open Doors USAfigures that 360 million Christians last year lived in countries where persecution was “significant.” Roughly 5,600 Christians were murdered, more than 6,000 were...

Eric Lander, director of the Office of Science and Technology, resigned after it was disclosed he had disparaged and humiliated subordinates. To add insult to injury, he abused taxpayers, too. Read More… Allegations of abuse appear to be only the tip of the iceberg in the case of disgraced Biden administration official Eric Lander. According to Politico, the Office of Science and Technology Policy director faces scrutiny for failing to disclose financial interests in a major COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer while...

It’s time to state the obvious: The State of the Union address is doing more harm than good, making promises it can’t keep and further eroding citizens’ opinion of government. Who’ll be the first brave POTUS to end the SOTU? Read More… In the fable of “The Bell and the Cat,” a group of mice discuss how best to protect themselves from a rapacious, predatory cat who has been hunting them down. One mouse suggests they put a bell on...

A new book argues that the artist must be free from “relevance” while also adhering to some kind of authority. The question is, Whose authority? Read More… Among the rarest qualities of the late American filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, who died in January at age 82, was his conviction, repeatedly stated and consistently in evidence in his work, that the art of film had its own set of rules and precedents. Close-ups, camera movements, and cuts weren’t meant to be used...