Bob Dylan just won a Nobel Prize in literature. It’s exactly the kind of lifetime achievement award such an endlessly inventive and prolific artist as Dylan deserves. Of course, everyone is mad about it. In The New York Times, Anna North laments that the selection committee passed over “writers who have made significant innovations...
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‘Doctor Strange’: Cheap gags and weak plot are nothing to marvel at
It’s nearly impossible to fault Benedict Cumberbatch — but it’s becoming increasingly easy to criticize Marvel Studios, LLC, as it continues to make the same superhero movie over and over again. Marvel’s latest film, “Doctor Strange,” features Cumberbatch in the lead role alongside Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. While the acting was...
Brother Leibowitz Revisited
After World War II, U.S. Army Airman Walter M. Miller, Jr., feared that the world would explode. In his novel, it already had. “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” Miller’s only novel, was published in 1959 amid fears of nuclear holocaust. Today, this classic work of science fiction brings us face to face with the darker...
‘Finding God in the Waves’: a story of faith and doubt
“What miracle is parting the sea in the face of a supernova? What power lies in an empty tomb when you compare it to nebulae that are hundreds of light-years in diameter, giving birth to stars?” Mike McHargue, an author, speaker, and podcaster on science and religion, grappled with these questions as he struggled to...
Hillsdale alumnus writes about coffee and competition law
Nestled on the street corners of every self-respecting American city, coffee shops adorned with the famed coffee brand’s green and white siren welcome hordes of customers where, seated by Starbucks fireplaces and soaking in faint strains of jazz, they enjoy not just coffee, but a cultural experience. Yet the coffee giant’s popular drinks and...