Materialists 2025
What does a new film tell us about relationships?
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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?
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.