Volodymyr Denyssenko’s film, Conscience (1968), is set in a small Ukrainian village under Nazi occupation during World War II. Vasyl, a Ukra...

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

In the context of the embroiled hatred violently spewing out between Israelis and Palestinians in October 2023, some rich, very vocal alumni...

The medium of film literally consists of “talking” pictures in succession; that is to say, sound and image. Amidst astounding technological ...

Mel Gibson’s  The Passion of the Christ  (2004) hinges on the root meaning of  passion , which is suffering. In fact, Jesus’ body is reduced...

The film, I Am Cuba (1964), consists of four vignettes that depict what Cuba was in its pre-revolutionary day beyond the wealthy gloss of th...

Rainbow (1944) is a Soviet patriotic propaganda film about the brutal Nazi-German occupation of a village in Ukraine. Filmed in 1943 while U...

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...

C. S. Lewis aptly describes in one published lecture the nature of a very human game, which is really about how soft power, which is often b...

Domestic governance is perhaps more difficult than international relations in that real enforcement mechanisms are in force only in the form...

I take it as a matter of divine justice that redemption can elude a convenient, belated atonement, especially if the atoning individual or i...

Academia is its own sort of community, with its own distinctive culture. A university campus is not akin to a small town. To treat a campus ...

The 14 th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “bans anyone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution but who subsequently ‘engaged in insu...

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

The films Agora (2009) and Fatima (2020) contain very different depictions of Christianity. By depictions, I mean ways in which Christianit...