As I write, Washington lies under light snow and, with wind chill, is 90 F. In most of the country, not too bad for January. In Washington – between the incompetence of government and a population that rarely encounters (read: “drives in”) snow – it means near paralysis. During the Cold War, I used to...
Alexander Payne’s new film, Downsizing, is a humorless comedy about people who decide to make it big by becoming small – about five inches, more or less. Some Norwegians have invented a process by which people can be shrunk with no other side effects than the need for a whole new wardrobe. The conceit is...
Host Raymond Arroyo, FRI President Robert Royal, and The Catholic Thing contributor and canon lawyer Fr. Gerald E. Murray discuss the ever-widening controversy of the pope’s apostolic exhortation.