Hail Caesar!

September 2, 2016|Ben-Hur, Cecil B. DeMille, Hail Caesar!, Hays Code, The Apostle's Creed, The Book of Mormon, The Ten Commandments

Our Big Picture Problem

by Molly Brigid McGrath|Leave a Comment

The Book of Mormon, a musical by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone.

Cultures show their substance by what they make easier and what they make more difficult.

July 15, 2016|Coen Brothers, Eddie Mannix, Hail Caesar!, Josh Brolin

The meaning of Hail, Caesar!, the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, has been lost on the movie critics—most of whom, like their fellow journalists, are religiously illiterate. While dismissed as an “entertaining flight of fancy,” it actually delves into the deepest question, the question of God and our place in the universe.

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

Planning the Great Society

A discussion with Amity Shlaes

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

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Our Big Picture Problem

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