This week, we feature the gripping sports history of a U.S. team in the Berlin Olympics and a potent analysis of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) threat to our country. Geopolitics ‘The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America’ By Bill Gertz The People’s Republic of China has grown in power―economically and militarily―at an…
Train Accident Survivor Experiences the Realm Beyond and Gets a New Lease on Life
What is your worst nightmare? When you watch a train speed into the platform, has your brain ever—despite all logic—succumbed to its innate love for drama? Out of nowhere, your imagined body is tumbling hopelessly through the air and into the incoming train. That thought alone is enough to send a chill down anybody’s spine….
TV Review: ‘Silo: Season 1’: The Long-Awaited Cult-Favorite Adaptation Mostly Delivers
TV-MA | 8h 20min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Action | 05 May 2023 (USA) In development in some form or fashion for the past decade, the long-awaited adaptation of author Hugh Howey’s epic “Silo” (original title: “Wool”) finally sees the light of day. Originally conceived as a feature to be helmed by Ridley Scott for Fox, it eventually landed at Apple…
Christine de Pizan and the City of Ladies
Good role models are hard to find. In most places we look, we see celebrities glorifying “sexual liberation” (a promiscuous hook-up culture), expressing “nice” opinions about shifting cultural winds (virtue-signaling political correctness), and admonishing everyone to just “do you” (be narcissistic). Young people of both sexes, but especially females, are suffering from record rates of…
Profiles in History: Charles M. Russell: Artist of the American West
Charles Marion Russell (1864–1926) was born in St. Louis and grew up with a hankering for the cowboy life. By the time he was born, America had been undergoing a massive expansion westward since the Mexican-American War victory and the discovery of gold in California, both taking place in 1848. By the time he turned…
Power Portraits of Tudor Monarchs
The Tudor monarchs, via their art, are on a year-long royal progress of the United States with the exhibition “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England,” currently on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) until May 14, 2023. This show debuted at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and will travel later this…
To Save Culture, Artists Must Value Craft Once Again
Commentary Many lament the collective decline of critical thought among young people, not just here in Australia but throughout the Western world. It seems to me that there are a variety of contributing factors to this very real crisis, not least of all social media, an agent which has significantly impaired the concentration of so…
Book Review: ‘The Time Has Come’: A Fateful Encounter in a Drugstore
An Illinois native and University of Illinois journalism alum, author Will Leitch calls Athens, Georgia home. Leitch is a media guy contributing to several national publications and the founding editor of the former sports blog “Deadspin.” He has published five novels. “The Time Has Come” is his sixth and, like his fifth “How Lucky,” is…
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Julius Caesar’: Do Commoners or Kings Decide the Common Good?
NR | 1 h 46 min | Drama | 1950 David Bradley is probably better known for having directed former First Lady Nancy Reagan in “Talk About a Stranger.” But he’s also the one who helped Hollywood discover Charlton Heston as a natural in the sword-and-sandal world of epics. Bradley doesn’t deviate from the overly…
Atheist Overdoses, Meets God and Sees How She Picked Her Own Life
Betty Guadagno is a recovery coach, helping others overcome their addictions and heal toward a more authentic and whole version of themselves. It’s work she approaches with gratitude and experience, having once “reprogrammed” herself out of a victim mentality “by the grace of God.” “It’s really amazing just to be able to hold that space…
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