Roughly one in four American children grows up without a father at home, and birth rates hover near historic lows. Amid these challenges, fathers are often cast in the culture as extras in an increasingly task‑driven portrayal of parenting, reduced to a name on a car‑pool schedule or a wallet at the ready. On Father’s Day, […]
The world certainly isn’t aching for more live-action remakes. Disney’s offerings have ranged from the not too bad to the just OK to the downright terrible. But sometimes, a remake is more than a cash grab, and it comes just when you need it. Such is the case with Dreamworks’s How to Train Your Dragon, […]
Patriarchy in some cultures can be excessive. Parents can have too much control over their children’s lives. Men can have too much power over women. The present can have too much deference for the past. None of this is true in America today, though. One in four children is raised without a father or stepfather […]
God knows today’s right indulges in plenty of absurdly overheated rhetoric, but can Democrats please quit proclaiming the end of democracy over every trivial...
Eccentric and quirky characters; symmetrically framed, pastel-shaded shots; estranged fathers trying to rekindle broken relationships with their dysfunctional families — all the hallmarks of a Wes Anderson movie permeate The Phoenician Scheme, the stylistic filmmaker’s 13th feature. Nicknamed “Mr. Five Percent” and loosely based on the infamous Armenian multimillionaire Calouste Gulbenkian, Benicio del Toro disappears into […]
We’re a week into summer break at our house, and despite everyone in our social life, from church to school to the local gym, asking, “What are you doing this summer?” we’re doing “nothing.” Our nothings consist of pool time, movie marathons, cooking shows and cooking together, beach days, play dates at the park, hikes, BBQs, and […]
Hours after the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors passed a resolution declaring Iran breached its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Israel executed a wide-ranging, thorough, and successful attack on the regime’s military capabilities. Iran will now surely retaliate, but the regime has already proved itself to be a force for death and […]
