Tag: Arts & Culture

Finding Freedom in God’s Law: ‘Daniel in the Lions’ Den’

Daniel was a devout Jew during the time of King Darius’s reign. Darius, the king of Persia around the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., was friendly toward the Jews and even played an important role in the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem after the Babylonians destroyed it. King Darius admired Daniel and sought to…


Book Recommender: An Adventure Mystery Explores Fascism and Anti-Fascism in America

C.J. Box has been writing about the fictional adventures of Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett for over two decades. During that time, Pickett has remained happily married and watched his daughters grow up. He has become a little battered and a little slower over time, yet he still loves his job. “Shadows Reel” is the…


Lonely in America: The Paintings of Edward Hopper

Over 20 years ago, Robert Putnam’s “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community” posited that Americans had become increasingly disconnected from families and friends, and were joining fewer organizations than they once did. Social media increased contact between people, but these digital interactions proved an inadequate substitute for flesh-and-blood encounters. With its lockdowns…


Book Review: ‘Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America’

Dr. Ben Carson has been celebrated in a variety of arenas. He is the former secretary of housing and urban development, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, and the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. He is also a best-selling author having penned several books before this one. In 2008, under President George W….


Film Review: ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’: Mila Kunis Delivers a Tour de Force Performance in a Topical Psychological Thriller

R | 1h 53min | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 30 September 2022 (USA) Cut from the same cloth as “Girl on the Train,” “The Woman in the Window,” and “Gone Girl,” director Mike Barker’s “Luckiest Girl Alive” is a psychological thriller delivered from the perspective of a woman who might be an unreliable narrator and certainly has a large trunkful of…


The Iron Horse: The Yankees’s Lou Gehrig Was a Titan on the Field, Humble as a Man, and Beloved by Millions

Earle F. Zeigler, a founder of the North American Society of Sport Management, once wrote that “from antiquity we know that ‘hero’ was the name given to a man of ‘superhuman strength, courage, or ability, favoured by the gods; regarded later as demigod and immortal.’” He further defined a cultural hero as “a mythicized historical…


Life After Life | Documentary

After decades behind bars, three men set out to prove that success can lie on the other side of tragedy. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films Follow EpochTV on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EpochTVus…


Business Not as Usual | Documentary

An inside look at the impact COVID-19 has had on small businesses in rural North Georgia. Introduces independent, idea-based businesses “not as usual.” * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films Follow EpochTV on social…


Film Review: ‘Eternal Spring’: An Ominous Warning Cry From the Far East

Not Rated | 1h 25min | Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Animation | Oct. 14, 2022 (USA) On March 5, 2002, practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong hacked China’s state-run television in order to broadcast videos exposing their persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP condemned the act as a hijacking by “enemies of the state.” In an animated scene…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Oct. 14–Oct. 20

This week, we feature a sobering assortment: potent novels on how power corrupts, moving poetry of World War I, and a history of the winter at Valley Forge. Fiction When Power Corrupts ‘All the King’s Men’ By Robert Penn Warren “All the King’s Men” is one of the most potent stories of how power can…