In Intro to Film courses, Citizen Kane (1941) and His Girl Friday   (1940) typically play major roles in the teaching of film-analysis. H...

A conflict of interest is the privileging of the interest of a part, by that part, over a conflicting broader interest, such as the public g...

Is democracy more susceptible to being run by large corporations or to mob-rule? I contend that the police and military power of the U.S. ev...

St. Francis of Assisi died 800 years before October 4, 2026, assuming that the days dropped in adopting the Gregorian calendar after his dea...

While a student at Yale, I took Charlie Musser’s seminar on documentary films on a whim, after having taken two courses oriented to film nar...

The early film , Forbidden (1932), asks the viewers to sympathize with a married politician and his mistress, who together have a “love chi...

Secession is a nasty business. Both Britain and South Carolina learned that lesson. Whereas the American member-state failed to secede from ...

The UN report, “Gaza Genocide” (A/80/492) states that “the prolonged unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory” by the state of Israe...

The musical group, R.E.M.’s most popular song is arguably “Losing My Religion.” The first two lines of the lyrics are, “Life, it’s bigger; I...

Human nature itself must be attuned to walking out before a speech by political leaders who intentionally have enemy civilians killed and se...

Having state governments at the front in putting together a federal budget is problematic for several reasons. Those governments can easily ...

The medium of film is capable of bringing nuances of power to audiences, even when the story-world is steeped in autocracy and totalitariani...

In September, 2026, U.S. President Trump announced his intent to have the U.S. Government send $5000 to every American, which would cost tha...

Spurred on by the myriad inventions from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the related consumer demand for the conveniences, th...

E.U. President Von der Leyen’s 2026 State of the Union address can be characterized as a bricolage of concerns “all over the map,” with prop...