The Latin noun,  machina , can be translated as “machine, engine, military machine, contrivance, trick, or artifice.” The Latin word,  e , o...

In ancient Greek tragedy, it was not uncommon for a god or goddess to perform the function of a Greek (i.e., conscience) chorus at the end o...

Having recently been presented with an E.U. citizen denying the E.U. has citizens even as he admitted that he could vote for a candidate to ...

Considering the amount of screentime devoted to raw violence, it may come as a surprise that The Crow (1994) is actually about love. Not th...

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

An important implication of the saying, a fish rots from the head down , is that it is important that corrupt heads be swiftly punished so u...

Released in 1976, The Omen reflects the pessimism in America in the wake of the OPEC gas shortage and President Nixon’s Watergate cover-up,...

In line with the films, The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Others (2001), Passengers (2008) centers on the (hypothetical) question of whether...

Carl Schultz’s film,  The Seventh Sign   (1988), centers on the theological motif of the Second Coming, the end of the world when God’s divi...

The U.S. Constitution includes an open invitation for the accession of Canada into the U.S. as a state. The invitation was made before Canad...

With utility and consequences valued so much in Western society at least as of 2012, when the film, Flight , was released, the story-world o...

As a former KGB agent, Russia’s President Putin could probably write a book and teach a course on the art of lying, or fabrication, as means...

In chapter 11 of the Bhagavad-Gita , Krishna reveals his real form to Arjuna. The chapter seems like a departure from the surrounding chapte...

The Christian “belief in the ‘rapture’ of believers at the time of Jesus’ return to Earth is rooted in a particular form of biblical interpr...

Besides its humanitarian work, the UN can boast of providing a situs in which officials of national governments can talk to and with each ot...