Levi Strauss theorized that the function of a myth lies in reconciling basic contradictions, whether they are felt within a person or at the...

Sometimes lemons can make use of political gravity to become lemonade. Of course, behind the lemons are human beings, who are of course inna...

I contend that Shankara imparts too much of his Advaita Vedanta Hindu philosophy’s penchant for renunciation in interpreting the momentous c...

At a party meeting in Madrid, E.U. on February 8, 2025, the Patriots for Europe party sent out the message of wanting to be the new normal i...

On February 8, 2025, the E.U. states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania turned off all electricity-grid connections to Russian and Belarussia...

The Hindu myth, the Bhagavadgita , is typically regarded as placing the god Krishna above not only the other Hindu gods—here rendered merely...

If ever there were a mistaken title for a movie, Bell, Book and Candle must rank in the upper tier, for the spells in the bewitching comedy...

Return to Haifa (1982) is a film in which the political element of international relations is translated into personal terms on the levels ...

Even though the Bhagavadgita is just a small part of the Mahabharata Hindu epic, the popularity of the former book in Hindu households has ...

The medium of film has great potential in playing with ontology, the branch of philosophy that asks (and tries to answer) the fundamental qu...

As the chief executive of the U.S. Government, the president is tasked with executing the law—the passage thereof involving both the Congres...

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

On the first full day of U.S. President Trump’s second term, the president and vice president attended a multi-faith prayer service at the N...

Democracy, Plato and Aristotle both thought, is a governmental system that is most susceptible to the mob—meaning mob-rule. Accordingly, the...

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 ...