The 2026 film, I Want Your Sex , is ostensibly about sex, for the film is saturated with that leitmotif, but the narrative is actually a cri...

Hatred warps reasoning as well as ethical judgment along the lines of a warped time-space fabric around a large mass. In other words, the sh...

As the protagonists in the film, Iván & Hadoum (2026), neither Iván nor Hadoum, who fall in love, are heterosexuals even though by all ...

On 16 June, 2026, the European Parliament rejected the European Council’s proposed budget for the E.U. not only because of the proposal’s €3...

I contend that in having both federal and state-level officials attending the G7 international meetings, Europe is over-represented even as ...

The medium of film has the potential to not only to move audiences emotionally, but to speak to fundamentals in the human condition so that ...

During times of global peace, it is easy to suppose that increased economic interdependency between countries reduce the likelihood of war d...

On 1 June, 2026, the E.U.’s two legislative chambers agreed informally on text for a law called Return Regulation, which is oriented to faci...

An organizational policy, whether in an educational, religious, or business organization, is not law . Accordingly, “police tactics” are ina...

As evinced by Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney likening a planned referendum on whether Alberta should vote to separate from the rest of ...

To be a neutral arbitrator of a conflict between two other countries, a government cannot favor one of the two; otherwise, the veneer of neu...

Speaking on his first “social” encyclical, Pope Leo said the Roman Catholic Church, whose membership stood at 1.6 billion embodied souls aro...

Sometimes it pays to go behind a piece of writing to conduct a genealogy of the writer himself or herself, rather than to dive into the writ...

The Terra dei Fuochi, or “land of fires,” is a region in southern Italy where “decades of illegal dumping, burying and burning of waste” had...

A sadist is a person who feels pleasure in inflicting emotional and physical pain on another person. For the sadistic personality, the emoti...