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"Hill House": Haunted by What Might Have Been

The great nonsense of cultural relativism has been superseded by personal relativism. Values are now relative to each person. Shirley...

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"If Beale Street Could Talk"

The Personal vs the Political The first time Christopher Hitchens heard the slogan “The Personal Is Political” he knew – as he tells us...

What "The Fountain" Means

How to find meaning in the meaningless I was nine years old when my life was folded up into a few suitcases and bags, and my family and I...

"Jaws": Three Ways to Watch One Movie

Readers very often find themselves haunted by endings, moved to sadness because the story is over, and saturated with the heaviness of...

"Schindler's List" and Self-Control

What Spielberg’s classic can teach us about power, over ourselves and others, and self-control There is a story in the Hebrew Scriptures...

How "The Shape of Water" Interrogates Nostalgia

On Guillermo del Toro’s “beautiful ugly fairytale” and how it reveals the dark side of the Golden Age I make it a habit to follow the...

Why"Jurassic Park" Should Go Extinct

On the legacy of Steven Spielberg’s classic film and the steady decline that followed. The latest instalment of the Jurassic Park...