Many people on the Right fear “woke capitalism” and the idea that corporate executives will bend to pressure to advance a vision of the world that replaces their values with progressive ones. To those who are worried, I say, be…
Infertility medicine divorced from the natural moral law has proven very cruel to children. The Catholic Church warned that removing reproduction from marriage would have grave consequences for them. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “techniques that entail the…
In a recent article, I noted that Marilyn Monroe, though dead as a doornail for 60 years now, is still earning tons o’ dough for people she never knew. I was referring in that instance to the splashy and superfluous…
When she was alive, everybody wanted a piece of her; after her death that didn’t change. Elton John hit No. 11 on the U.K. charts with his 1973 song about her, “Candle in the Wind”: And it seems to me…
Of the many brilliant, hilarious gags in Mel Brooks’ classic The Producers (1967), my favorite is the one where theatrical producer Zero Mostel and his accountant partner, Gene Wilder, have been up all night delving through a stack of scripts…
Dean Obeidallah isn’t exactly the Obi-Wan Kenobi of the Democrat Party. It would be a good thing — for the Republican Party — if he was. You probably don’t know much about Obeidallah. He’s one of those media figures who…
There is a YouTube video which might interest you. It’s four years old and it’s picked up over 51 million views in that time. It probably deserves 10 times that much attention. The video is an interview between Helen Lewis…
In a few key respects, HBO and Netflix are not alike. One way this is reflected is in how the two entertainment giants have gone about their respective tentpole medieval action dramas. HBO’s Game of Thrones and Netflix’s The Last…
In the middle of the night, Clara (Zoe Kazan), a 30-ish housewife, creeps out of bed, wakes up her two young sons, Anthony (Jack Fulton) and Jude (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong), and, while her husband, Richard (Esben Smed), sleeps on unawares in…
