Although Pope Francis amended Catholic social ethics to exclude the death penalty rather than continue to accept the punishment in cases in ...

If viewers can get past Hercule Poirot’s extraordinarily long (and awful) mustache in the 2017 film, Murder on the Orient Express , listenin...

Although no overtly theological or religious material is in the film  Awake (2007) because greed itself is the real antagonist, idolatry (s...

The original title of the 2009 film, The String , is Le Fil , which actually translates as thread rather than string. These two English word...

The transmigration of souls is usually associated with reincarnation. In the film, All of Me (1984), at the moment of death, a person’s sou...

“Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord” is a Biblical saying that is perhaps as well known as it is typically ignored in the midst of passion. E...

“We remain committed to the principle that international borders must not be changed by force.” [1] This statement was signed by E.U. leade...

Lord of War (2005) is a film in which a Ukrainian-born American arms dealer, Yuri Orlov, and his brother, Vitaly, who works with Yuri when ...

The sheer brazenness with which countries ironically recognized as being sovereign states by international law ignore international law even...

Diwali, or Deepavali, is one of the biggest festivals in India. More than a billion Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists in the world celebra...

An artificial sun rose on an otherwise dark night when the nuclear-bomb test named Trinity ushered in the era wherein our species’ aggressiv...

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a serious film that enables the viewers to wrestle with the demands of justice for atrocities enabled by Ger...

In  the 2000s, I had the honor of studying under Patrick Riley, a scholar of historical moral, religious, and political thought. Even though...

Might the personality type most excited by inflicting pain on others be drawn to “serve” on a police force?   Might force itself be an allu...

W hen I was young, my dad would sometimes criticize me for engaging in “word games.” Perhaps I was already parsing words; my parents and ma...

The Bahá’i religion is based on the monotheistic teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, the nineteenth-century prophet whom Bahá’i’s maintain is the pro...

In his commentary on “Sex and the College Dean” in The Wall Street Journal , William McGurn bemoans what he calls the “ surrender [of] wha...

Along with paying $2.6 billion to settle criminal and civil charges for having “failed, and failed miserably” to notify the SEC of warning ...

As was demonstrated in September 2008 as banks began to stop lending to each other even overnight, trust is the foundation, or grundlagen ,...

The day after several marches and rallies by the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York City, The New York Times reported that “two doz...