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Recent Articles:
World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
A new book moves the center of World War II history eastward.
One Battle After Another 2025
A new critical darling promotes violence and hates America.
National Public Radio, Christianity, and Teen Pregnancy
Important truths left unsaid.
‘What about the Bodies’ by Ken Jaworowski
A new noir novel set in rust-belt Pennsylvania.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: Convert Maker
A new book brings attention to a celebrity clergyman.
Eddington 2025
Ari Aster’s COVID-19-and-BLM-themed film is either a masterpiece or a mess.
SEEC Shroud of Turin International Conference and Symposium
Scholars and seekers explore new stunning research.
Bronshtein in the Bronx and Koba the Dread; Laughter and the Twenty Million
Trotsky, Stalin, and Zohran Mamdani.
Materialists 2025
What does a new film tell us about relationships?
David Horowitz: In Memoriam
He told truths that needed to be told.
Thunderbolts*
A Marvel movie even Martin Scorsese might love.
At Home With the Holocaust
A scholarly exploration of the complex ways traumatic memory is passed intergenerationally.
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Espionage and the importance of humanities scholars.
The Shroud of Turin
Is seeing believing?
Snow White 2025
Is it Woke or Disneyfication that hobbles the movie?
The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
A book asks, can Nazis love? And why did the powerful aid their escape?
Presence 2024
A small film succeeds where bigger films failed.
‘The Brutalist’: A Must-See Masterpiece?
Or a self-indulgent, exploitative, Hollywood agitprop?
‘Queer’ 2024 Starring Daniel “Bond, James Bond” Craig
Beat ideas literally killed people.
Wicked 2024
It’s a very popular new film – but it hasn’t enchanted everyone.
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.
A biopic about a Christian, German, World War II hero stirs controversy.
A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg explores American Jewish identity eighty years after the Holocaust.
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell has written the definitive biography of an unforgettable woman.
A New Movie on Papal Selection Stirs Controversy
Does “Conclave” bash Catholicism – or celebrate it?