Publications

If, as I believe, the new media aristocracy is essentially the aristocracy of feeling, then Johnny Depp is the crown…

Bad jokes are like rotten apples: it only takes a few of them to spoil the whole barrel. Company Man,…

I’m not quite sure how it does it, but the Australian film, The Dish, directed by Rob Sitch, gives the…

Enemy at the Gates, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, aspires to the Saving Private Ryan level of spectacle, but offers a…

Let it not be said that Memento, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, has nothing to say. On the contrary,…

Time and again Hollywood, wearing its artist’s beret, attempts to satirize the entertainment business, of which Hollywood itself is so…

Maybe I’m growing tired and jaded from seeing large numbers of mediocre movies, but more and more I find that…

The Ashcroft confirmation hearings in January reinforced the intuition that virtually all American politics since the Cold War has become…

At the luncheon after George W. Bush’s inauguration, senator Mitch McConnell toasted the new president as an American “Joshua,” whose…

John Green of the University of Akron may know as much about which Americans vote for which candidates and why…

Thank you for the invitation to participate in this 125th anniversary lecture series on “Faith, Freedom, and the Future.” That…

In his recently published book, The Spirit of the Liturgy, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger offers an instructive commentary on the famous…