Beneath The Pink Patriarchy-Hate, ‘Barbie’ Tries To Answer: What Is A Woman?

Does 'Barbie' fully grasp the underpinnings of its own message about what it means to be a woman, and ultimately what it means to be human?

‘Start Trek: Picard’ Enters The Matrix With Embrace Of Transhumanism

The show despises the merely human. It reduces the human person to digits.

How To Win The New Cold War With China: Restore Faith, Community, And Industry

We may have pretended history was over and that the nation-state no longer mattered. But China never got that memo.

‘Where The Crawdads Sing’ Explores Individual Liberty As A Tool Of Survival

Kya Clark governs herself in liberty and discipline, keeps to her family values, and is hard not to see as an all-American inspiration.

What Adele’s Shockingly Biblical ‘Oh My God’ Music Video Teaches Us About Sin And Ourselves

It's in that sense that 'Oh My God' is biblical, not because Adele illumines a path that is holy or righteous but because she shows us how sin so often works.

Why Pursuing A Secular Holy War Is Not Justified In Afghanistan

Through philosophical and religious jujutsu, David French extends moral and legal imperatives for individuals and makes them an imperative for nation-states.

Malcolm Gladwell Illustrates The Problems With Technocratic Solutions To Human Problems

The bestselling author's latest work, 'Talking to Strangers,' is engaging but it also tries too hard to distill the complexities of human nature into simple insights.