Antonio F. Clarke

BOOK REVIEWChristianity and psychiatryEdited by John R. Peteet, MD; H. Steven Moffic, MD; Ahmed Hankir, MBChB, MRCPsych; and Harold G. Koenig, MDSpringer, 2021; 311 pages; $119 (paperback)Reviewed by Renato D. Alarcon, MD,…

The School system go to hell. A California elementary school is facing backlash from parents after promoting an After School Satan Club for children as young as 5. The controversial club is set to hold…

At first glance, Ajay Devgn Drishyam 2just like its predecessor, is fairly faithful to Mohanlal-Jeethu Joseph's Malayalam thriller Drishyam 2. There are some interesting tweaks here, and before I go on to expand on…

With the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman and the actress playing his sister, Letitia Wright, variously reported as severely concussed or (for better or worse) stubbornly opposed to vaccines, it's a wonder the film Black Panther:…

Click to enlarge United Artists The camera capturing him frequently through the windows, The long goodbye makes private detective Philip Marlowe as much an actor as an observer. In a stroke of luck, Detroit will…

Dunstan Bruce was on vocals with the Leeds Chumbawamba anarchists who were the most unlikely pop stars of all time, and who can forget when they threw an ice bucket at Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at the Brits. Dunstan!-->!-->…

People don't tend to film their arguments and fights. Ernaux has alluded to her husband's banter, but, true to form, she's inclined to view their split as both a public and private phenomenon. “All around them, divorce proliferated,”…

Industry insiders were quick to react on Tuesday following news of a planned deal between two of the world's largest crypto exchanges - Binance and FTX. Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao tweeted that the exchange had…

Click to enlarge Courtesy of Focus Features Jaylin Webb and Banks Repeta in armageddon time. With armageddon time, James Gray joins the ranks of his middle-aged (and sometimes older) peers eager to revisit, abstractly…

Despite taking big metaphysical leaps with its premise, Mali Elfman's double is ultimately a retread of standard indie movie beats. One of the great ironies of human existence is that death, the very thing we spend our lives trying to…

In the digital age, activities that compromise the cybersecurity of organizations or individuals are becoming more common, as is their depiction in movies. Such acts are called "hacking", and the people who participate in them are called…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oIDVxTHsUAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oIDVxTHsUA Soren Kierkegaard died in 1855, but if he had glimpsed our modern landscape of dating apps, he probably would have understood it. “People who…

HOn Wednesday, locaust survivor Ben Stern spoke to Social Justice Pathway students about his experience during World War II and the importance of learning the stories of survivors. "I want to thank you for giving me the chance to speak,"…

When she arrives in Paris, cash in hand, Ms. Harris is a smash hit with everyone from tramps stopped at a train station to staff at Maison Christian Dior. His only failure is with the manager, Madame Colbert (Isabelle Huppert – who knows…

Photo by: Brenden Cowan Haytham Nawaz CANADA: LOBLAWS PRICE FREEZE AND NDP INQUIRY ON GROCERY Food prices have skyrocketed over the past year. In light of soaring prices, Loblaws recently froze prices for its no-name…

Attention all bookworms! You officially have an awesome place in downtown Twin Falls, a new and fresh place to discover unique books in a wonderful atmosphere. DAP Books is located on Main in downtown Twin Falls, and you have to go check…

There's more than meets the eye in Anthony Fabian's Cinderella-like adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1958 novel Mrs. 'Arris goes to Paristhough the transformative power of a stunningly beautiful dress, and its ability to…

"Nosferatu the Vampire" brought a dose of post-war existentialism to the Dracula mythos. For one thing, Kinski's Count Dracula, here restored to his rightful name, evokes more likability as a character than Max Schreck's…

With help from Derek Robertson Rishi Sunak, the UK's former finance minister, holds a press conference on the 2021 budget in London. | Tolga Akmen/WPA Pool/Getty Images The month of chaos in the UK, which reached a…

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In the second installment of Freedom's lamentable rip-off of a much more successful column, to commemorate 10 years since squatting in apartment buildings was criminalized, George F casually presents housing opportunities for those who…

October in Paris marks a shift in focus from fashion to art. This is when the city's major institutions unveil their flagship exhibitions, while independent galleries often present their rising stars. Usually, October is also when…

2021 Don't look up received a mixed response over its unique and transparent premise revolving around global warming and climate change. Some thought the concept was a necessary talking point that needed to receive more attention in…

Maybe that's taking armchair psychology too far, but the Spring/Summer 2023 collection, which she finished weeks ago and which hangs on rails and rails - it's vast - around us contains a lot of things that would look feminine and even…

Regardless of genre, each film sees the protagonist experience an event that affects them to the point where their sanity declines on many levels. However, films that make this their focal point create a deeper perspective where the…

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In her painting Bait al-Mal, Kamala Ibrahim Ishag presents us with the district of Khartoum where she grew up in the 1940s and 1950s. This large, mainly dark canvas presents groups of figures in a sort of diagram of their connections and…

“We are not looking for a Cold War,” President Joe Biden told world leaders gathered at the United Nations on September 21, 2022. He continued that America was not asking “any nation to choose between the United States or any other…

Kelly Writer's House on October 15, 2022. Credit: Max Mester Poet Jerome Rothenberg visited the Kelly Writers House on…

What can the philosophy of mind teach us about our place in nature? Humanity's position in the order of Being may seem too vast or too mystical a destination to be reached by what is often a rather dry branch of philosophy. At the very…

Above: Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Vasily Perov The recent deaths of former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev and Orthodox Metropolitan Kallistos (Timothy) Ware have drawn praise, remembrance and comment in secular and religious circles.…

When it finally debuted at the end of 2020, the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 was met with resounding boos from gamers over the game's now notoriously botched and bug-ridden rollout. Yet despite its ignominious start, Cyberpunk 2077…

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As someone born in the fall, October to be precise, I can't wait to enter this time of year. The…

William Herzog believes that Jesus stood with the poor in the conflict between power and powerlessness. Paulo Freire was a Brazilian activist and scholar. He taught, and led others to teach, literacy to poor, oppressed, and…

Oprah Daily When I was a student in 1982, taking a course on ancient American literature, the professor, a famous scholar of Whitman and Emerson, announced in his first…

A wildly inventive episode led to two of the most comedic scenes in "Harley Quinn" Season 3. In Episode 8, "Batman Begins Forever," we enter Bruce's deep subconscious and dive into his most traumatic life event. This, of…

After corrupting the minds of at least four generations of Hindus with his poisonous fiction, a French keralite puppet and leftist atheist has returned to Guruvayur to celebrate his eightieth birthday. Although it is commendable that he…

For the most part, Minnesotans are very polite. Of course, from time to time, you will have the misfortune to piss someone off. But even then, it's usually a fairly mild kind of anger.Really, what is there to be upset about being in…

"You keep using that word," Inigo Montoya said in Princess Bride. "I don't think it means what you think it means." The word they were referring to was "inconceivable". The statement also applies to the word “fascism”.President Biden…

Jean-Luc Godard, the father of modern cinema whose playful and combative provocations threw down a gauntlet with which all who came in his wake must wrestle, died on Tuesday. He was 91 years old. The director died at his home…

September 7, 2022 | By Rita Buttner The Reverend Ronald J. Amiot, SJ, Loyola Board Member and former Rector of the Loyola Jesuit Community, died Saturday, September 3, 2022 at St. Ignatius…

Radical politics, crossing the various currents of anarchism and communism with somewhat repugnant practical incarnations, has always offered an inextricable resistance to hierarchical power. Some were statists, some were not.…

On his first official day at the helm of Europe's biggest automaker, new VW CEO Oliver Blume announced plans to double down on electric vehicles. In an internal interview, Blume said Volkswagen would accelerate its transition to…

For the past few years, I have co-hosted the FORMED book club with Father Fessio and Vivian Dudro of Ignatius Press. Each week we record a half-hour discussion about the book we have chosen to read. Last week we started discussing a new…

Afghanistan has long been a rentier state dependent on international aid. Aid has had a mixed impact on the long-term performance of the Afghan economy. From 2001 to 2021, the flow of aid has undoubtedly shaped the contexts of a modern…

I'm grateful that I was professionally compelled to experience the entire experience, because I desperately need the money, of course, but also because I wouldn't have experienced this fascinating anomaly otherwise. Then I will tackle…

In viewBeaconsfield GalleryThe time is NOW and it is late!June 11–September 10, 2022London When Monica Sjöö's canvas god giving birth (1968) was installed in St. Ives Town Hall in 1970, it caused…

It is extremely ironic that the two philosophers credited with being the founders of existentialism could not be further apart in their thoughts on love and virtue. Friedrich Nietzsche's favorite theme is power, the will to power.…

When you're faced with public expressions of malevolence that defy conventional explanations such as difference of opinion or bias, you know it's time to take it a step further.A search into the psychology of the hater will provide the…

Ships that have met I looked up one day And he walked A tall man with a view Eyes. The room was dark, looking unclear, My vision had darkened, My thought was instructed. He sought, he found He asked, he…

A bulletproof premise - samurai and spies, what do you need, a roadmap? - receives a typically oblique treatment by the always unassailable Masahiro Shinoda in "Samurai Spy". It was carried out at the height of the Cold…

Julia Jacklin, Pre Pleasure ★★★★☆ On her excellent sophomore album, Crushing, Julia Jacklin looked at a series of failed relationships with critical self-examination. Three years later with Pre Pleasure, Jacklin takes a softer approach.…

The Jews are the canaries in the mine shaft of resurgent fascism. And we are here to tell you that something is wrong. In many disturbing ways, the United States in 2022 looks uncannily like Germany in the early 1930s: polls indicate that…

In our recent article on the legacy of Ahmed Deedat, we mentioned the fact that in 1986 he shared the Saudi heritage King Faisal Prize for "Service to Islam" with a certain Roger Garaudy.Many readers may have naturally wondered:Who was this…

Although the 2020s are just beginning, we've already been blessed with plenty of memorable comedy movies. It seems like people need to laugh more than ever, especially given the tough times we're living in right now. Indeed, movies are…

Photo source: Rebecca Ore – CC BY-SA 3.0 One species has turned into the material backdrop of its tribulations the 10 million other species that constitute its extended family, its donor environment and its daily cohabitants. More…

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One species has turned into the material backdrop of its tribulations the 10 million other species that constitute its extended family, its donor environment and its daily cohabitants. More precisely, it was a small population of this…

anchor Ecological blog Treehugger published an exchange between the author of a new anonymous Twitter…

After watching "The Batman", I was convinced that I wouldn't see a better movie coming out this year. Walking from my car to the theater, I even texted my friend that I was about to see “Mrs. Harris…

The Walking Dead spawns an anthology of standalone vignettes set in the zombie apocalypse. An HBO documentary brings Princess Diana's turbulent life to life in the public spotlight. Among the series signed at the end of the summer: HBO's…

I grew up in a state of ambiguity, raised in an often misunderstood area locally referred to as "Central Jersey". It's the place where, during my childhood in the 90s, the suburbs of Philadelphia and New York met to wipe out the few…

After the FBI raided Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday - an extraordinary…

After the Federal Bureau of Investigation searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday - an extraordinary event in US history - the former president and his allies immediately began screaming that Trump was…

Author and pastor, Brian Zahnd, gives an in-depth explanation of the deconstruction happening in Christianity today, a brief history of existentialism, Friedrich Nietzsche and the alternative to Christianity, and the quirkiness of…

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Oslo City Hall, photographed from the port, in 2009.A view that Anders may have once found warm.Source: Wikimedia Joachim Treves Oslo, August 31 (2011) is the perfect movie to watch as a man in his twenties studying at a…

The Abraham Art Gallery opened the new season on Monday August 1 with the exhibition BIBLICAL IMAGINATION IN GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST PRINTS. From the collection of Sandra Bowden, the show features over 50 original…

Neon Genesis Evangelion is essential viewing for any anime fan, whether they're a fan of the sci-fi genre, a longtime fan of the franchise, or a newcomer. It is a stimulating series with cerebral themes exploring psychoanalysis, the…

Robert G. Putka's Existential Comedy Drama Mr Limbo was picked up by Terror Films and is set for a digital arc on September 2. Terror Films acquired horror/comedy films made Mr Limbowith Cameron Dye of Valley Girl, for a North American…

Pope Francis attends a closed-door meeting with Jesuits in Quebec, Canada, July 29, 2022. / Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, August 4, 2022 / 10:59 a.m. (CNA). Pope Francis explained to Jesuits in Canada how his experience in Latin…

Author and New Life Church pastor Rich Villodas returns to the podcast to talk about the three waves of people leaving the church, why pastors keep failing, what Gen Z and baby boomers expect from a church and why they don't fit,…

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However you cut it, the Binding of Isaac is a story that demands interpretation. What was Abraham thinking? Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"Abe said, "Man, you gotta put me on"God says, "No."Abe says, "What?"God said, "You can do…

By Dr. Francis Agbaraolorunpo Nigeria is a nation of very religious people who strongly believe in the supremacy of God. Belief in the existence of God is a common denominator among most Nigerians regardless of gender, age,…

Ukrainian authorities say the last two operating reactors at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant have been shut down due to fires and damaged power lines, heightening fears of a potential accident as the facility was disconnected of the…

In my continuing journey to explore Quaker history, particularly the ironies and counter-ironies that a narrative of the past reveals, I have come across this interesting personal account. Briefly, A. Mitchell Palmer served as Democratic…