Today, on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and death, it’s worth revisiting George Orwell’s great defense of Shakespeare against Leo Tolstoy

President George W. Bush’s Portraits of Courage can help the nation, and especially the Church, better understand wounded warriors.

The cultivation of civic virtue in America depends on artists and entertainers who imaginatively portray the human condition, honestly question the American regime, and constructively represent embodied civic virtue—whether in World of Warcraft, The Wire, Scandal, or elsewhere.