Higher education is not valued equally in the various American states. Where academia is not particularly valued, other things can intercede...

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

I submit that not enough attention is brought to bear on the root of the warming of the planet: the huge increase in human population in the...

Lest we get carried away and inadvertantly enshrine our leaders with mythic laurals, it is worthwhile to peel back our societal "reme...

Referring to the speculation in gold that was engineered by Jay Gould and others in 1869 to enrich themselves and the Erie Railroad, Henry A...

Lest history be forgotten, it may come around again to bite us when we least expect it. During the war between the Confederate States and t...

In The Wizard of Oz (1939), Glenda, the Good Witch of the North, tells Dorothy at the end of the film that it had been within her power to ...

In theory, state media is more vulnerable to doing the bidding of its sponsoring government than are privately owned media companies. In pra...

A republic is characterized by the citizenry electing representatives, who in turn legislate (i.e., make law). As an alternative, the citiz...

Ironically, in making the ruling on New Year’s Day of 2024 striking down Prime Minister Netanyahu’s amendment to the country’s basic law tha...

It strains credulity to believe that vengeance against the Palestinian residents of Gaza was not among the motives of the Israeli government...

In Medium Cool (1969), John Cassellis, a cameraman, maintains a medium-cool level of emotion even in the midst of the socio-political turmoi...

Winner of the Palme d’Or (golden palm) prize in the Cannes Film Festival for 1974,  The Conversation   (1974) was written, directed, and pro...

Pope Francis approved a document in 2023 that allows for “the possibility of blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples o...

On December 19, 2023, Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled that Don Trump, a former U.S. president, had engaged in insurrectionist activity as a m...