For an overwhelmingly secular society, an awful lot of today's popular entertainment is de...
The creation of artificial human beings has a long history in literature and film, going b...
In the half-century following the Civil War, the American culture curdled, coalesced, and ...
A high school coach in northern Indiana has been fired after tweeting that a local pizza...
After premiering in 1899, Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya went on to become a theatrical sta...
Jordan Speith won the Masters golf tournament at age 21 and showed a great amount of cla...
April the 15th marked Holocaust Memorial Day. Nearly everyone knows about the industrial k...
If Mike Finkel had worked for Rolling Stone magazine and not The New York Times, he migh...
In the runup to the horrors of the First World War, social turmoil seemed to be the (dis)...
Happy birthday to the perpetual adolescent brat! The moody, cranky, destructive little p...
Many people argue that our time is a particularly hyper-partisan one. I wonder if they ...
The inestimable Larry Kaufmann recently made the case in this space that Bob Dylan’s Bri...
How far have Hollywood romances fallen as a result of debacles such as How to Lose a G...
Those who enjoyed the 2013 miniseries The Bible will probably like the new NBC series�...
While We Were Young, by Noah Baumbach, is an amusing comedy, but it seems to be trying t...
The “Fast and Furious” franchise jumped the shark a long time ago. Now, it’s all a...
"When studied with any degree of thoroughness, the economic problem will be found to r...
The Rolling Stones will tour the United States this summer, playing in large stadia in ...
It might be a pointless exercise to compare the literatures of two nations separated by mo...
Watching the previews before the show’s debut, your writer predicted CBS’ reboot of th...
There has been a tendency in recent years to put George Harrison on a pedestal. As the m...
Bible-themed and Christian movies have hit the multiplexes in a big way in the last year. ...
Angry people are already casting complaints about the new comedy Get Hard. The only gr...
The twenty-five tales of Freddy the Pig, published 1927-1958, constitute one of the cla...
The 1950s film version of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds is the best version of al...
There’s no end to the debate over the greatest rock album, but the question of the mos...
Hang out in front of a television set for as long as this writer has, and you can honestly...
On Saturday, University of Notre Dame head basketball coach Mike Brey showed what good c...
Sean Penn is making sure his Liam Neeson moment will play out under his progressive rule...
A major concern raised by opponents of the FCC's new claim of Title II authority to regu...
As the ad market for legacy media continues to wane, CBS-TV is doing something about it, l...
