Missouri Macbeths

by Peter J. Leithart

Lots of bad people get their deserts, but the world of Ozark is one where sinners cannot be laundered and aren’t judged. Continue Reading »

20 Jan 2023

2022: Our Year in Film and Television

by Various

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph about the most memorable films and TV shows they watched this year. Continue Reading »

29 Dec 2022

Severance and the Future of the American Workplace

by K. E. Colombini

The new Apple TV+ show Severance hints at a truth many of us observe: Severing our work lives not just from our personal lives but from who we really are is becoming more and more difficult to do. Continue Reading »

9 Sep 2022

Just Vengeance in The Terminal List

by Caleb Symons

While critics spew outrage, audiences are enjoying a show that doesn’t attempt to propagate a revision of the moral order, but rather recognizes and engages the human desire for ultimate justice when society’s institutions fail. Continue Reading »

9 Aug 2022

How Mary Whitehouse Waged War on Pornography

by Jonathon Van Maren

Mary Whitehouse was not simply a moralizing paranoiac, and at some point a half-century ago, we chose the pornographic world that she spent her life fighting against. Continue Reading »

16 May 2022

Saturday Night Live Tackles Abortion

by John Murdock

In 2022, SNL’s sword of comedy only cuts one way, and its blade is far from razor-sharp. Abortion is simply too important to them to be a laughing matter. Continue Reading »

13 May 2022

Keep Christianity Strange

by Justin Lee

For many Christians, the perennial temptation to immanentize the eschaton has become so familiar it is often invisible. In Midnight Mass, the trope of vampirism splashes that invisible temptation with vivid blood, and we are reminded that chiliastic labor only builds kingdoms of hell. Continue Reading »

22 Apr 2022

2021: Our Year in Film and Television

by Various

We asked some of our writers to contribute a paragraph or two about the most memorable movies and TV shows they saw this year.
Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2021

Coronation and Communion

by Timothy Jacobson

The moral standards that enable a society to hold itself together—generosity, loyalty, justice, the dignity of the individual, the right to freedom—are themselves rooted in the sacred in every society. Continue Reading »

29 Nov 2021

Mrs. America’s Mistakes

by Helen Andrews

Mrs. America imagines that it can safely romanticize Schlafly’s pastel-colored suburban world because no woman today could possibly want to go back to it. Continue Reading »

22 Jul 2020