These movies are unlikely to convert unbelievers, because they demand a type of belief that requires unassailable evidence.
Journalism
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Former chancellor takes over as editor of the London Evening Standard
George Osborne lost his old government job when the Brexit referendum swept David Cameron’s team off the political stage.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Chasing the story was Jimmy Breslin’s reason for being
Breslin, the legendary New York reporter and columnist, died last week at 88.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Why journalists need to resist the label of ‘the opposition’
The media is not the “enemy of the people.” We are the people’s detectives.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
La Civiltà Cattolica: 4,000 and counting
America magazine will turn 108 years old this April, but that is nothing compared to our sister publication La Civiltà Cattolica.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Philly archbishop says the press is being too hard on President Trump
On conservative radio show, Archbishop Chaput says “elites” in the media are hostile to voters of faith.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Please stop watching John Oliver
The false sense of solidarity that comes with sharing an Oliver segment on Facebook is an invitation to apathy not resistance.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis says Italian Jesuit review has given a faithful reading of his papacy
The pope welcomed the news that La Civilta Cattolica will now be published in English.
Posted inPolitics & Society
A college professor and a cop ask, ‘Who are the elites, anyway?’
Elites are defined less by the position they hold than by their pretense to dictate reality.
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
Alternative facts and the coming constitutional crisis
We more likely face destabilizing, constitutional confusion, than brute authoritarianism.