December 25, 2023

Keep Pasolini's Christ in Christmas

In 1964 Pope John XXIII invited non-Catholic artists to work alongside the Vatican to create great Christian art.  Inspired by the Pope’s outreach, an Italian filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini, an atheist and Marxist who had been sentenc...

October 31, 2020

The ghosts of 'Mad Men'

The television series 'Mad Men' is one of the most popular of all time, in no small part because of its moral center. It's still memorable becausee it's a meditation on beauty, decline, and the commoditization of our mo...