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The Culture-defining Power of 'The Paper'
- Culture, Entertainment, Uncategorized
- September 15, 2025
The above words were the theme of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1983 Templeton Prize address. Early in this speech he said, “And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too, I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: ‘Men have forgotten God.’”
READ MOREI was chatting with the head of a private school last fall when she made an interesting observation. Like many private schools, her school experienced a flood of parents in the wake of Covid who saw what their children were taught during the online public school classroom experience and wanted to give them a far
READ MOREThe recent August school shooting during a Catholic Mass in Minneapolis prompted public arguments about the efficacy of prayer. For example, former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki and current Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt exchanged some heated remarks on prayers offered up for the victims of the shooting. “Prayer is not freaking enough,” Psaki tweeted. “Enough with the
READ MOREIn American writer Wendell Berry’s novel “Hannah Coulter,” the titular character reflects as she grows older on her upbringing and her adult life. She also thinks often about her adult children, who have all moved away from their home and their widowed mother. In one significant section of reflection on the past and its failures,
READ MOREFor every version that rolls out, “Jesus Christ Superstar” merits accusations of blasphemy. The latest version, performed in early August at the Hollywood Bowl, is no exception. But this blasphemous rock opera should also receive criticism for its artistic failure. Not surprisingly, it gets resounding praise instead, lauded for its uneven, wild, challenging nature. “It’s
READ MOREThere’s not a cloud to be seen as I drive with my seven-year-old son – apart from the five unnatural lines left behind by planes in a grid pattern, that is. “Why do people want to control the weather?” my son ponders aloud, looking up at the unnatural lines. Weeks prior, we saw similar trails
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