The Screaming Pope

Is civilization suffering from PTSD? When you get into an accident you go into shock which is also the way the body protects itself. But wha...

Hassan Nasrallah Russia is thwarting Ukraine under the guise of restoring what was theirs. It's the old Imperial Russia impulse going ba...

When you study montage there is always the scene of the train coming and the maiden on the tracks--which is sexist btw. Why not make it a ma...

Someone with the strongly held beliefs Joe Biden has would not weaponize the Justice Department. That is what Donald Trump tried unsuccessfu...

The Rohingyas in Myanmar, the Uyghurs in China and the women of Afghanistan constitute some of the most oppressed minorities in the world. U...

JFK wrote Profiles in Courage . What better soubriquet for Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Michelle Obama famously said, "When they go l...

photo: Janet Malcolm Mistah Shawn, he dead. The old New Yorker offices on 43rd street are another country. Brendan Gill famously wrote Here...