Modern society has no shortage of candidates for substitute religions.
Instead of attending religious services, we can assemble at football games; in lieu of studying the lives of the saints, we can come to know Harry and Meghan. Continue Reading...
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December 12, 2022
Jimmy Lai Gets 5 Years for Fraud as He Awaits Trial
Held in solitary confinement, 75-year-old Jimmy Lai is still awaiting trial for the crime of resisting the iron grip of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. On December 10, however, that grip got a little tighter. Continue Reading...
December 08, 2022
Scorsese’s Hugo Is a Family Film Worth Revisiting
Martin Scorsese turned 80 last month and he deserves celebration. He’s one of perhaps five directors in Hollywood who is respected as a master of the cinematic art, and the one most closely identified with the art itself. Continue Reading...
December 07, 2022
Withdrawing from Afghanistan: One Veteran’s Crisis of Command
On August 26, 2021, Stuart Scheller posted a video on LinkedIn and Facebook in which he strongly criticized senior U.S. military and civilian leaders for the embarrassing way in which the country had withdrawn forces from Afghanistan in the preceding days. Continue Reading...
December 06, 2022
My $50,000-per-Person Poverty Dinner
“You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Continue Reading...
December 02, 2022
Hong Kong Blocks Visa for British Lawyer in Lai Trial
Hong Kong freedom fighter Jimmy Lai was scheduled to go on trial this week for alleged crimes against China’s National Security Law. However, Hong Kong’s immigration department has succeeded in pushing the trial back by denying Lai access to a key international lawyer on his legal team: Timothy Owen, whose visa was recently withheld by a Hong Kong court. Continue Reading...
December 01, 2022
Protests in Iran Threaten to Topple an Unjust Regime
The cruelty of the Iranian regime is on display daily. In July, Tehran initiated a crackdown on unveiled women, which two months later resulted in the death of Mahsa Amini, apparently from a police beating, and triggered mass protests across the country. Continue Reading...
November 30, 2022
Freeing the Market from Unfree Minds
Free Market: The History of an Idea by Jacob Soll, a professor of history, philosophy, and accounting, attempts to trace the philosophical and theoretical evolution of the free market over 2,000 years. Continue Reading...
November 29, 2022
Lives of the Saint: C.S. Lewis on Stage and Screen
Sometimes it seems as though the only things that exercise modern souls are sex, scandal, and sin, but all around us, every day, there are indications that a not-insignificant portion of the population seeks something more. Continue Reading...
November 23, 2022
Avalon Is Thanksgiving for America
Barry Levinson was one of the most successful directors in America around 1990, when he made Avalon, an immigrant Thanksgiving movie trying to sum up the transformation of the American family in the 20th century. Continue Reading...
