World War II

“We are believers in the myth of World War II,” wrote history scholar Alec Ryrie in a recent piece for First Things. It is “our religion.” By this, Ryrie means that in the absence of a unifying faith in our increasingly post-Christian age,…

“We have all the time in the world,” James Bond tells his new bride Tracy in 1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” both moments before and after she dies at the hand of Bond’s nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofield. Unfortunately, like Tracy,…

Black History Month. Women’s History Month. Hispanic Heritage Month. Native American Heritage Month. Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Disability Pride Month. Arab American Heritage Month. Pride Month. Seemingly every day…

We received some sad news last week. The mother of one of my best friends died. As a fellow of a certain age (child of the ‘80s), parents passing, unfortunately, is becoming a regular occurrence. Karen was 82, with brain aneurysms and other…

Sometimes an old-fashioned, Nazi-killing romp is just what the movies need. And that’s exactly what “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” brings to the cinema. The film, very loosely based on the real-life exploits of World War II British…

While Speaker Mike Johnson and the House were cannibalizing border security, President Joe Biden was proving once again that he should be in a dementia ward, not president of the United States of America. The story of Uncle Bosie, the…

With Hollywood strikes over, television production is ramping back up. But are any of these shows “must-see TV”? Most viewers find today’s array of channels and services difficult to navigate. Demand is high for good family viewing…

As America faces unique modern challenges, divisions have heightened to a level not seen since the Civil War. The founders of the country and heroic figures — from Christopher Columbus to Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and even George…

It’s time to revisit the Spanish Civil War — a bloody three-year conflict spanning from 1936 to 1939 in which communists massacred Catholics because the church’s doctrine and its head, Jesus Christ, stood in opposition to their ideology and…

The pivotal scene in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a victory speech gone wrong. Cillian Murphy is masterfully cast as the queasy genius, a spindly boy with troubled dreams who has grown into an unlikely and uncomfortable war hero.…