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…that the portrayal of scientific discovery on film and television is always going to be a bit of a hard sell. These are visual media, and it can be difficult…

…as distinguished from Trump himself, could bring back constitutional government. I wrote, then took out, a disclaimer paragraph that said: This column should not be understood as an endorsement of…

…Gamble’s Pantene ad campaign released before the Super Bowl, titled “Dad-Do,” featuring several NFL players fixing their daughters’ hair. One can’t help but smile watching Pittsburgh Steelers running back DeAngelo…

…now being replaced by a different type of inside-outside politics. The Trump phenomenon is neither a disease nor a symptom – he is instead the beta-test of a cure that…

…of new characters exploring whole different genres but within the shared setting of a distinctive fictional universe. When they made the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it was considered something…

…was supposed to bring us together. Instead, he’s divided us.’ In a frank attempt to put aside differences and open a dialog with Trump’s base, Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim and…

…This is different from the suspension of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief asks you to accept a certain limited number of things that you know are false or improbable. The Harry…

…of an original work of art is not one of them. A disenfranchised, disdained electorate has little taste or opportunity for art’s invitation to recollection in tranquility. This last December…

…the kind of earnestness a previous generation might have brought to bear learning about Renaissance paintings or opera—but directed in the opposite direction. Middle-class cultural aspiration has been turned away…

…fourth generations. They may retain a certain cultural distinctiveness in their names, diets, or cultural festivals, but insofar as they do stand apart, these groups generally adhere to traditions that…

…go too far in punishment. Indonesia hands out up to 32-month sentences, while in Saudi Arabia even discussing the possibility that some masturbation is acceptable in private life can land…

…pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. Kingsley’s words resonate with many parents raising special children. For some conditions, though the emotion is the same, the destination differs….

…endowed a subject with divinity. Early Christian iconographers haloed Christ to affirm his divinity, as the “Logos made flesh.” The concept of Logos is critical, because arguably the loss of…

Tuesday night, because they didn’t have the votes to sink her nomination, Democrats decided to stay up all night protesting Betsy DeVos’s likely 51-50 confirmation as U.S. education secretary. Now,…

The Trump budget is a big disappointment to anyone who wanted to see Republicans take a hatchet to federal spending. Trump’s request for $1.151 trillion in discretionary spending in 2018…

…woman feeling empowered, how about Maya Angelou’s fabulous “Phenomenal Woman”: “Now you understand / Just why my head’s not bowed. / I don’t shout or jump about / Or have…

…the ones that sacrificed. … There were some women in service at that time, but most of them were in the war effort. They did something. Everybody did something and…

…for disagreement and to insist that we settle our disagreements through argument and persuasion rather than through force. Only once before in American history has a significant portion of the…

…Rex Tillerson returning from the Gulf region empty-handed. While the disagreements stretch back over decades, the current impasse culminated in broken diplomatic relations and severed air, sea, and land links….

Things look truly dismal for President Trump right now. His own congressional party did not overturn Obamacare. His immigration plan seems to have zero traction. His infrastructure proposals are also…

…high-risk for return to terror activities. Bergdahl has since been dishonorably discharged after being courtmartialed on charges of desertion and endangering troops. Americans held in Iran, a pastor and journalist…

…text from the Luther Bible and reads, “denn die Posaune wird erschallen”—then the trombone will sound. Brahms indeed scores his work so that the trombones sound right as they’re being…

…non-conforming submissions. Several Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) books didn’t meet California reviewers’ requests for explicit references. The publisher’s middle-school text failed to sexualize historical figures Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson,…

…over the past two seasons. The necktie racists of groups like Identity Evropa are taking advantage of a divisive approach to anti-racist pedagogy that may be disaffecting an increasing number…

…and is forbidden. The relevant case here is Abington School District v Schempp. And while the court did find against the school district’s bible readings, it did so with a…

…that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender, and nostalgia for an earlier…

…same-sex marriage decisions of the California Supreme Court in 2008 (4-3), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2010, and the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015…

…“Kumbaya” became a staple of those guitar Masses disparaged above. Cute girls sporting the latest leg-warmer chic performed the liturgical boogie. Don’t even get me started on other apparel worn…

…churches can and do die — and take their values with them. #Resist? #Retreat? So what are Christians to do with mockery in the public square? The recent gala at…

…has been disappearing for at least the last three decades, as the distance between the most liberal Republican in Congress and the most conservative Democrat continues to grow. The two…

…and sexual orientation characteristics of the individual to promote a politicized idea of “diversity.” The Left is extremely fixated on the self-evident value of diversity represented through inherent characteristics rather…

…a dispute over the family policy of attending church. Owen disapproved of the conservative views his parents’ Baptist church expressed, and no longer wished to attend. His father told Owen…

…Judging by results and from most people’s experience, indoctrination is not only a problem with rogue regimes, but also a distinctly American problem. However, here it is difficult to determine…

…Americans didn’t just happen out of the blue. The knowledge gap has been growing for generations. Decades of a steady diet of distortions, dishonesty, and government largess, coming from so…

…and even the stark and relentless passage of time failed to dim “The Other Side of the Wind,” its director, and the stubborn admirers and collaborators who somehow helped the…

…If everyone who runs Freedonia gets to hold a position of authority because she found a magic dingleberry on the hidden path, does finding a magic dingleberry on the hidden…