Ginsburg is best known for being the second female justice to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. Her fight for equality and her role in American politics has greatly impacted the course of history. However, “On the Basis of Sex” offers a closer look into Ginsburg’s beginnings as a successful lawyer, and a deeper...
To produce a decent sequel to any well-loved film is no easy task. To release a sequel to a classic film 54 years later, and still capture the magic and essence of the original film is award-worthy. Unfortunately for Walt Disney Pictures, “Mary Poppins Returns” fails to measure up to its 1964 counterpart. The film...
Chris McCourry, director of jazz ensembles at Hillsdale College, is bringing Rafael Mendez’s legendary trumpet music to campus in an upcoming faculty recital. “Mendez is kind of a hero of mine,” McCourry said. “He was a Mexican trumpet player, and he was just phenomenal beyond belief. He was one of the greatest soloists ever.” McCourry...
Ryan Wilson is a poet and the current editor of Literary Matters, an online literary journal. Wilson’s first book of poems, “The Stranger World,” won the 2017 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and his poems, translations, and criticism appear widely in periodicals such as First Things, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee...
“You are just a puppet. You are not in control.” On Dec. 28, Netflix dropped a surprise episode in its ongoing series “Black Mirror.” Since its inception in 2011, the series has often been compared to the 1980s science fiction show “The Twilight Zone,” which is famous for traversing moral issues through suspense and psychological...