The action and thrills-a-minute director of such blockbusters as Bad Boys, The Rock, and Armageddon abandons his dedication to the heroic, albeit violent, protagonist and succumbs to a popular moralism that makes his latest all too predictable. Read More… Film critics recently have been trying to encourage their audiences to return to theaters—cinema, after all, is a lot more impressive on a big screen and in pany of people who share our emotions. We want to laugh together and to...

Adrian Vermeule’s Common Good Constitutionalism represents his version of the left’s “living Constitution.” Few people will embrace his self-serving theory, which is tailor-made to modate both his beloved administrative state and integralist moral philosophy—a bination. Read More… The term “constitutional law” is in large part a misnomer. This is rarely discussed within the guild of the legal profession and heretical in the increasingly woke precincts of the legal academy, where the field of “constitutional theory” is a cottage industry. The...

This is the latest development in the ing trial of Jimmy Lai, who faces multiple charges under Hong Kong’s so-called National Security Law. Read More… A former associate of Jimmy Lai’s will testify against him in exchange for his freedom, according to Hong Kong Free Press. Lai, a 74-year-old Hong Kong media mogul who owned Next Media and the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, faces two counts of conspiracy mit collusion with foreign countries or external elements, one count of collusion...

The honorary degree from Catholic University of America, es while Jimmy Lai sits in a Hong Kong prison awaiting a third trial on charges under the city’s so-called National Security Law, was accepted by Lai’s son Sebastien Lai. Read More… The Catholic University of America has honored Jimmy Lai, media mogul and pro-democracy advocate from Hong Kong, with an honorary degree while he is jailed for alleged violations of the National Security Law. Students and faculty at The Catholic University...

In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court must decide whether a brief, post-game public prayer by a high school football coach constitutes a state endorsement of religion. Seriously. Read More… To my great embarrassment, I must admit that prior to going to law school I enjoyed the quasi-scripted drama of Judge Judy. The litigants’ outrageous circumstances and colorful personalities distract viewers into believing that the legal issues plex. The magic of the judicial soap opera evaporates quickly under...

Along with the currently imprisoned Jimmy Lai, Cardinal Zen as been one of the leading voices for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong. Read More… Following his arrest and hours of questioning, Cardinal Joseph Zen—one of the leading Catholic prelates in Hong Kong—was released on bail after being accused of “collusion with foreign forces.” As a staunch supporter of democracy in Hong Kong and mainland China, Zen has long spoken out against authoritarianism and the persecution of Catholics under Chinese...

The film industry likes to think of itself as the champion of civil rights, but when es to the genocidal Communist regime in China, it has proved to be not pliant but eager to please. Read More… Who’s in charge in Hollywood? Surely studio bosses, pensated executives, A-list actors, and celebrated writers and directors set the agenda in the American entertainment industry, don’t they? Not so fast, says Wall Street Jour­­nal reporter Erich Schwartzel in a rigorously researched, admirably hard-hitting...

A new book by theologian and historian Carl Trueman helps us chart not only the roots of modern self-perception and its destructive effects in the world around us, but also a way of Christian pilgrimage through our maddening modern culture. Read More… Virtually every sphere of American culture—from the university to the church to the mass media to multinational corporations and Big Tech—has e host to hotly contested debates over gender, race, sexual orientation, and a host of other issues....

Thomas Sowell is a hero to many Christian conservatives for his frank, well-researched, and contrarian studies of the socio-economic conditions of black Americans. But how many of those Christians know that Sowell is an atheist? Does it matter? Perhaps more than you’d think. Read More… “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” —Augustine Thomas Sowell is a towering...

Will the woke police rate this series as a racist example of “white saviour” syndrome? At least the Japanese stars manage to shine in this boring and self-indulgent liberal fantasy. Read More… One of the most stylish of American directors, Michael Mann, who made Heat and The Insider (earning three Oscar nominations), is now producing the HBO series Tokyo Vice and has directed its disappointing first episode. I watched Tokyo Vice hoping Mann could make something of our unwatchable TV,...