Publications

Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone announces its seriousness of purpose by being set in the midst of the Holocaust….

As the revolutions of the 20th century begin to recede into the past, all that remains of them is the…

In Book Three of Tolstoy’s epic, War and Peace, the hero, Pierre Bezukhov, arrives at the battlefield of Borodino to…

As every reader of the tabloids must know by now, Bob Crane, star of the prisoner-of-war sitcom (you had to…

Two and a half years ago, I went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, to give a lecture on “the…

Philip Jenkins, a distinguished historian and professor of religious studies at Penn State, is an intellectual provocateur who backs up…

Among the eponymous Rules of Attraction in Roger Avary’s film of the novel by Bret Easton Ellis is an ironically…

Friedrich von Hayek used to say that there was lurking just beneath the surface of socialism — and not very…

For a movie starring so many great French actresses, 8 Femmes (8 Women) by François Ozon, is an astonishingly anti-feminist…

Discussing her documentary, “John Paul II: The Millennial Pope,” in a recent interview, the distinguished film-maker Helen Whitney noted that…

If you can get over an understandable revulsion at the preposterousness of the premiss of The Man from Elysian Fields,…

The Americans must know there are thousands of young people who are as keen about death as Americans are about…