Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Espionage and the importance of humanities scholars.
Recent Articles:
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?
Standing Up to Scary Movies
I say “boo!” to impotence in the face of evil.
Lee 2023
A fine film exposes as much as it hides.
Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich
Even if you’ve read many books on the topic, you’ll want to read this one.
Between the Temples
A new film comments on Jewish identity.
From Hamas to America
A new book by the terrorist-turned-Israeli-spy offers surprising insights.
A Student’s Red Flags
How can teachers guide students to the right path?
‘Horizon’ and ‘Fly Me to the Moon’
Two films worth seeing in a theater.
Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church
Sometimes the best defense of Western Civilization is a thorough confession.
Green Border
A new film about Europe’s migrant crisis is making headlines.
A Man Is Ugly. A Woman Is Fat.
Are we still allowed to state these facts?
Lena Dunam’s Auschwitz Tour Does More Harm Than Good
An examination of her new movie “Treasure.”
Is Anti-Liberalism Tearing America Apart?
A scholarly attempt to explain Trump misses the mark.
Jane Austen, Bridgerton, and Facebook Censorship
The people, the fear, and the websites, that shut us up.