A weirdly beautiful curiosity, Wes Anderson’s latest film boasts a host of stars and a look back at the Paris that was—and least in the imaginations of some self-serious writers. Read More… I offer you a series on Hollywood as seen by its artists, on the occasion of the impending Oscars. I don’t mean the dominant liberal arrogance that has doomed cinema, but rather the efforts of artists who have spent their careers trying to advance a view of America...

A Lutheran pastor takes issue with a recent Times essay declaring that online religious services should end. But what does it mean to be church? And what does it mean to worship the God es to us wherever we are? Read More… I love watching men’s college basketball. Three e to mind that I’m so thankful to have seen on TV—Chris Jenkins’ buzzer beater to lift Villanova over North Carolina in 2016, Christian Laettner’s dagger to catapult Duke past Kentucky...

The First Amendment appears to be under assault from the strangest places, including enclaves of Christians and Christian celebrities who believe power is their only hope. Is Jesus’ kingdom of this world after all? Read More… These are strange times in the United States. We are now living under the second consecutive presidency whose legitimacy is disputed by a significant proportion of the American people. The typical debates about taxation and foreign policy have been eclipsed by arguments about identity...

If you think you’ve seen it all before, perhaps many times before, think again. Expressive direction and Denzel Washington make this a Macbeth for a new era. Read More… Who needs another version of Macbeth on film? You may find yourself asking this question with the release of director Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, which stars Denzel Washington in the title role and, in the part of Lady Macbeth, Coen’s seemingly ubiquitous wife, three-time Academy Award winner Frances McDormand....

The petition asks Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam to pardon pro-democracy publisher and entrepreneur Lai and others and to correct the “terrible injustice” that has been inflicted on them through the implementation of the Beijing-inspired National Security Law. Read More… A worldwide coalition of Christian leaders submitted a petition to Carrie Lam, chief executive of Hong Kong, asking her to grant amnesty to individuals charged under the city’s repressive National Security Law (NSL), including one of the city’s most...

Recent remarks by Pope Francis denouncing “cancel culture” mentary by left and right. We all seem to be against it. Defining it, however, is the real trick, especially when we’re the ones doing the “canceling.” Read More… In the classic way of religious institutions, the pope picked up the term just as it seems to be going out of regular usage. It feels a bit like yesterday’s news. “Cancel culture.” It wasn’t just that the pope said it, I think,...

Fed up with the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion machine that was making his life and work increasingly difficult, the celebrated/reviled clinical psychologist has quit his tenured position at the University of Toronto. Is this a model for the like-minded or a move to be lamented? Read More… Jordan Peterson, the bête noire of the left, resigned his position at the University of Toronto in enviable fashion: on his own terms while issuing a blistering condemnation of the ideological corruption of...

After almost two years, several vaccines, and a variant that is far less deadly, it’s now up to individuals and families to decide how best to cope with the virus, not government. Read More… “The central question we face today is: Who decides?” That’s the opening line of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence to the Supreme Court’s Jan. 13 opinion striking down the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate that was to be enacted through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Justice Gorsuch...

The network admits that diplomacy will not dissuade the CCP mitting atrocities against its people—but why assist in promoting a veneer of normalcy? Read More… The media world is not a principled one, and its decisions are often not moral in nature. Standards of coverage are rarely dictated by the metric of right versus wrong but by popular versus unpopular—determined more by what’s likely to attract viewership than what certain subsets of the viewing public may deem the right thing...

Attempts to “save men” in the past, both for the church and from themselves, have often made things worse by making men more passive. It’s time for men in the pews to take control of their own healing. Read More… Progressives are finally waking up to the reality that men and boys are struggling in America. On January 27, Andrew Yang posted a Twitter thread observing that “there’s a crisis among American boys and men that is too often ignored...