Film

Superheroes Saving Us From Ourselves

The moral of Avengers: Infinity War is that life is good—indeed, that life is a good, one the good guys seek to preserve, and bad guys seek to destroy. Continue Reading »

15 May 2018

The Weak Lead Us to Reality

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

Summer in the Forest, a documentary on Jean Vanier's L’Arche communities for the disabled, reminds us that we are all fragile, and that we must love one another. Continue Reading »

3 Apr 2018

Witch Camp

by Eve Tushnet

In the film I Am Not a Witch we see how every human society interprets its own beliefs as damage, and routes around them. Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2018

Decline is a Choice (Partly)

by Pete Spiliakos

Hollywood, like so many of our elites, has chosen short-term advantage over the health of shared institutions. Continue Reading »

15 Mar 2018

I am the last living blacklisted Hollywood writer. I can’t prove this any more than I could legally prove my blacklisting at the time. (The blacklist, after all, was an illegal conspiracy subject to lawsuits.) I am reasonably certain about this claim because I knew the Hollywood writers in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2018