In his 2021 Templeton Lecture on Religion and Global Affairs “Geopolitics and Religion in the 21st Century,” Robert Kaplan notes how technology, rather counterintuitively, leads to alienation,…
In the summer of 1979, I worked in a small town in southern Ontario where one day I learned the Rockabilly artist Ronnie Hawkins was playing at…
It is now thirty years since Harold Ramis’s memorable Groundhog Day (1993) was released. An honor the film garnered a decade after its release was being chosen…
Almost anyone who has taught film studies has drawn on one of the numerous editions of the superb textbook by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson Film Art.…
There is a fairly common attitude among Eurocrats that a good crisis should not go to waste. And the ideal solution to a crisis is to move…
At the age of nine, Frank Furedi experienced a historical event that he would never forget. The Soviet Army crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, forcing Furedi…
Byung-Chul Han. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present. Translated by Daniel Steuer. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2020. Toward the end of the twentieth…
The 1989 animated musical fantasy All Dogs Go to Heaven humorously poses the question do dogs go to heaven after their life on earth. The dog lover…
In May 2017, a group of European conservative scholars and intellectuals met in Paris. They were brought together by their common concern about the state of European…
Donald Bloxham. Why History?: A History, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020 & History and Morality, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. The identical date that…
Love and Communication. Paddy Scannell. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2021. Paddy Scannell’s new thought-provoking book is a sort of intellectual and scholarly testament. He even suggests…