During the High Middle Ages, Troubadour poetry composed primarily in southern Europe included themes including of courtly love, which became...

Even as the E.U. struggled to come up with foreign policies on Gaza, Ukraine, and Iran in March, 2026, the union must have been cogent enoug...

The stature that comes with occupying (and even having occupied) public office, whether elected or appointed and especially if high office, ...

If there is a time and context that shows dramatically how stark economic inequality can be, the years immediately following the Wall Street...

Can meaning be extracted merely from living out an ordinary life in an ordinary town? Must a person be among the literary, political, entert...

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...

It is one thing for a dog’s tail to lead; even worse is the situation in which the tail refuses to let the dog walk or run. The staying powe...

The European Union’s governmental institutions are not limited to the European Council and the Council of Ministers, both of which represent...

In a retelling of the proverbial Faustian deal with the devil,  The Mephisto Waltz   (1971) plays out with the deal paying off, as Duncan El...

Decades before dying while doing battle with the demon possessing Regan NacNeil in  The Exorcist  (1973), Rev. Lankester Merrin successfully...

Lest the dystopian subtype of science fiction be taken too literally as a predictor of how human civilization will be likely to turn out, th...

Is a more perfect Union in Europe in America’s national interest? On the American holiday in 2026 that principally honors George Washington,...

The words mutuality and cooperation have positive connotations politically, whereas divisive and exclusive do not. To be sure, mutual cooper...

In an opinion submitted to the European Court of Justice, which tends to follow the legal opinions the 11 Advocates General, Tamara Capeta r...

Because the “the EU is built on consensus at 27” states, [1] by 2026 it had become painfully obvious to Europe’s elite that its Union had c...