By 2026, the world hardly needed any convincing regarding the strident zeal for endless vengeance in the Middle East, given the genocide sti...

It is said that history is written by the victors. The film, Nuremberg (2025), bears that out. Even though Justice Robert Jackson, the Amer...

The matter of group-identity is salient in the film, The Aryan Couple (2004), which actually centers around two couples: Joseph and Rachel ...

On August 5, 2025, Israel’s prime minister, Ben Netanyahu and his cabinet were considering conquering all of Gaza as cease-fire talks came t...

Besides using social pressure and anger to purge words that a student or faculty member deems unacceptable, the word police have found that ...

Religion plays a prominent role in the film,  Lykke-Per , or A Fortunate Man (2018). On the surface, Peter Sidenius, a young engineer, must...

Each of us is so close to human nature that our perception of it may be blurry or partial. One of Freud’s contributions is the insight that ...

In 2025 at Harvard, Madeline Levy presented her dissertation in progress in a graduate-student research workshop, which I was privileged to ...

I suspect that many people would feel very uncomfortable watching a religious person express devotional love to that person’s chosen deity i...

The establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, being in the wake of the Nazi atrocities, was arguably viewed generally then as something ...

It is easy to conclude that Adrien Brody “steals the show” in his depiction of Laszio Toth in  The Brutalist  (2024), a film about a Jewish ...

In The Natural History of Religion , David Hume claims that the human mind has difficulty holding on to the pure (i.e., unencumbered) idea o...

A basic tenet of the Advaita (non-dualist) Hindu philosophy of Shankara holds, “If saguna points to brahman’s immanence, nirguna points to ...

Compassion is so salient in so many religions that it is natural to assume that religious conduct is moral, which is to say that it issues i...

The Devil’s Arithmetic   (1999) can be classified superficially as a coming-of-age film, for Hanna, the protagonist, starts out being immatu...

In introducing a screening of Golda (2023) at Yale, Shiri Goren, a faculty member in the university’s Near Eastern Languages department, tol...

In  Valley of Peace  (1956), a Black American pilot and two Slovenian children head towards a valley in which the boy’s uncle lives—a valley...

The early Hebrews considered wealth to be an integral part of human perfection and, moreover, what ought to be. [1]  The ideal man was weal...

For anyone interested in filmmaking, a film that features the internal operations of a film studio—especially one during the “Golden Age”...

In the movie, Boy Erased (2018), the director of a church’s conversion therapy program invites the immediate family members of one gay bo...