For this fourth in a series on the five films I could watch forever, I get to talk about David Lean’s 1965 epic about Russia,

I first saw The Godfather in May 1972, three months after its release and right on the heels of my first year in grad school.

Here’s the second installment, gentle reader, in my series on five favorite films—more precisely, five movies that I’ve found worthy of virtually infinite re-viewing, with

A while back I came across one of those on-line teasers: name five movies that you can watch again and again without losing interest. And,

I’ve had a long adversarial relationship with American civil religion. It began with all those invocations I heard as a teenager in the mid-‘60s that

I was in a place, and taking a part, I never thought I’d see. But I was not alone in my bewilderment. One of the

Ok, kids, it’s time for the answers to the music jumble in my last post. Get ‘em all right and you’ll find your prize at

This end of the school year brings extra tumult for me, beyond the usual press of grading, farewell receptions, putting the books away, organizing the

I was on the road again last weekend (this has got to stop!) for the annual conference sponsored by the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public