Believing Is Seeing
History Unfolds Beneath the Ivory Tower
Posted: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Mary Ann Glendon evaluates the writings of a series of Western philosophers and legal theorists from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt on the basis of the link between their theory and practice. Few could be said to have enjoyed much success in their own political careers, but all have an anchor in reality that the utopian philosophers do not.  [Full Story]

Cut and Dried

Posted: Monday, September 19, 2011
The media is undergoing the same "big sort" as the general population into socially segregated groups of the like-minded. Now we don't even know what the news is until we know which side we're on.  [Full Story]

After Life (Wandâfuru Raifu)

Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2011
This summer EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman presented on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of five films on the general theme of Heaven. The series finished on Tuesday, July 26th with a screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life (Wandâfuru Raifu) of 1998.  [Full Story]

Defending Your Life

Posted: Thursday, July 21, 2011
This summer EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman is presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of five films on the general theme of Heaven. The series continued on Tuesday, July 19th with a screening of Albert Brooks's Defending Your Life (1991).  [Full Story]

Stairway to Heaven

Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2011
This summer EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman is presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of five films on the general theme of Heaven. The series continued on Tuesday, July 12th with a screening of Stairway to Heaven (also known as A Matter of Life and Death).  [Full Story]

Heaven Can Wait

Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2011
This summer EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman is presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of five films on the general theme of Heaven. The series opened on Tuesday, June 28th with a screening of Heaven Can Wait (1943) by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Don Ameche, Gene Tierney and Charles Coburn.  [Full Story]

The Right Thing
A philosopher misunderstands humanity’s code.
Posted: Thursday, January 13, 2011
Writing in The Weekly Standard, EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman, author of Honor: A History, finds that a new book about honor by the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah neglects the elementary historical task of explaining what honor is.  [Full Story]

Defining a Decade
The lines in the sand are not yet redrawn.
Posted: Thursday, September 16, 2010
Living in the Eighties seems to suggest that the most bitter partisan passions of the 1980s continue to burn brightly in academia, even where the rest of the country has moved on.  [Full Story]

The Pursuit of Happyness

Posted: Monday, August 9, 2010
This summer James Bowman has been presenting, on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington, a series of six films on the general theme of "The Pursuit of Happiness." The sixth and final film in the series, itself titled The Pursuit of Happyness [sic], by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith, Thandie Newton and Jaden Smith, was shown on Tuesday, August 3rd. Before showing this movie, Mr. Bowman spoke for a few minutes about it and the series as a whole.  [Full Story]

About Schmidt

Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
This summer James Bowman presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of six films on the general theme of "The Pursuit of Happiness." The films are being shown at the Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street N.W., Suite 600, and you can visit www.eppc.org/thepursuitofhappiness for details or to register to attend. The series continued on Tuesday, July 27th with About Schmidt by Alexander Payne, starring Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis and Dermot Mulroney. Before showing the film, Mr. Bowman spoke for a few minutes about it.   [Full Story]