But, even in the voluminous catalogue of world leaders who have engaged in ego-wilting acts of Trump sycophantism, this ...

In keeping with protocols, it is appropriate to end this drama of trading places with another conceit. At the end of the ...

Even worse, humans were told they were not only originally-sinful and imperfect, but imperfectible - except, perhaps, through the intercession of an Islamic Mohammed or Christian Jesus, demanding ...

. . . This picture, painted in 1512, is in the second chamber. The menacing attitude of the armed horseman, the fire of his steed, the lightness of the two celestial youths who seem to hang in air, ...

In Jesus's fall beneath the weight of the Cross, the meaning of his whole life is seen: his voluntary abasement, which lifts us up from the depths of our pride.

From the Gospel according to Luke. 2:34-35,51:Simon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken ...

The house was awash with the Russians this week – first because someone was reading George Saunders’ A Swim in the Pond in the Rain.In this book, the author of Lincoln in the Bardo concentrates on the ...

One of the greatest documentary filmmakers who ever lived died last week at the age of 97. He is the man who made The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la Pitié) which is the four-and-a-half-hour ...