James Bradshaw
Coronavirus reading: ‘The Demon in Democracy’ 25 Mar 2020 | FEATURES |
tags: book reviews, coronavirus reading, democracyA Polish philosopher spots similarities between Communists and progressivesIreland is moving inexorably to the Left 17 Feb 2020 | FEATURES |
tags: IrelandThe left-wing and nationalist Sinn Féin could end up forming a governmentThe noble, tragic, terrifying example of a World War II conscientious objector 30 Jan 2020 | POPCORN |
tags: conscience, conscientious objection, Nazi GermanyDirector Terrence Malick explores our duty to follow our conscienceWhy has America become such a fractured society? 28 Jan 2020 | FEATURES |
tags: atomization, individualism, institutions, United StatesThe most important social institution of all, the family, has changed beyond recognitionThe collapse of Catholic Ireland 13 Jan 2020 | FEATURES |
tags: Catholic Church, Ireland, secularizationIs it really due to the sexual abuse scandals?How the West was won – by Christianity 1 Dec 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: Christianity, history, secularizationWhether we like it or not, we live in ChristendomThe Irishman is a triumph for its director and actors 8 Nov 2019 | POPCORN |
tags: Mafia, Martin ScorceseHow does a contract killer live with his crimes?‘My Father Left Me Ireland’—moving, but out of touch with modern Ireland 24 May 2019 | FEATURES |
tags: IrelandAn unhealthy obsession with the 1916 rising mars an eloquent Irish-American memoirCreed II, Rocky and fatherhood 10 Dec 2018 | POPCORN |
tags: boxing, Creed, fatherhood, films, RockyRocky movies are lessons in fortitude. Never give up. Always keep going.Black 47: Ireland’s Great Hunger comes to the big screen 13 Sep 2018 | POPCORN |
tags: historical drama, Irish FamineIncredibly, the disastrous mid-19th century Famine has never before been dramatised in film.
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