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October 2026

October 15, 2026

On Trump’s Political Ads That You Paid For

President Trump used taxpayer money to produce political ads glorifying himself, designed to sway the...

September 2026

September 29, 2026

As Fulton Sheen Is Beatified, Don’t Forget Walter A. Maier

Bishop Fulton Sheen was beatified last week, the last step before sainthood, for his effective...

December 2025

December 05, 2025

Advanced Technology Makes Us More Primitive

When we think of our advanced information technology, we immediately marvel at how advanced our...

November 2025

November 17, 2025

Monday Miscellany, 11/17/25

Mainline Methodists try unity by division. BBC heads resign over bias. And Bible reading is up--belief...

September 2025

September 15, 2025

The Wrong Kind of Enthusiasm

This is my very first contribution to "Tabletalk," published in June 2001. I wrote about...

August 2025

August 22, 2025

DISCUSS: Infiltrate or Withdraw?

Which is the better strategy for cultural conservatives? "To infiltrate and reform elite institutions from...

April 2025

April 14, 2025

Holy Week Miscellany, 4/14/25

There are two "Last Supper" movies. Even tourists won't be allowed to worship in China. ...

January 2025

January 14, 2025

The Anti-Social Society

In today's culture, doing things with other people has become rarer and rarer. People are...

December 2024

December 06, 2024

DISCUSS: What’s Good on TV?

Continuing our series of non-political, non-adversarial discussion topics, what's good on TV? What is something...

September 2024

September 13, 2024

Nostalgia Fixation and the End of Progressivism

Have you noticed how many movies today are remakes of --almost always better--movies made years...

July 2024

July 18, 2024

Second Thoughts on the Acting Vocation

John Corbett found fame and fortune in his successful 30-year-old career as an actor. But...

June 2024

June 28, 2024

Agatha Christie and the Mystery of Mysteries

There is a connection between the great mystery writer Agatha Christie, controversies among Catholics about...

May 2024

May 14, 2024

How “The Lutheran Hour” Countered the “Religious Depression”

A new book shows how the Catholic priest Fulton J. Sheen and the Lutheran pastor...

May 08, 2023

Monday Miscellany, 5/8/23

The Navy tries the Bud Light strategy, a defense of writers, and a grab bag...

September 2022

September 09, 2022

DISCUSS: What Do You Think of “The Rings of Power”?

This weekend we discuss "The Rings of Power." We have blogged about Amazon's project of...

June 2022

June 10, 2022

What Are You Watching?

Some say we are in a new golden age of television, as streaming technology makes...

February 2022

February 15, 2022

The “Lord of the Rings” Series Will Be Family Friendly After All

Contrary to earlier reports, Prime's upcoming series The Rings of Power, a prequel to Lord...

September 2020

September 25, 2020

Count von Zinzendorf Did Not Lead a Vampire Sex Cult

A television drama on PBS described Count von Zinzendorf as a strange mystic who worshiped...

February 2020

February 04, 2020

The Super Bowl Commercial That Fox Refused to Air

You saw the Super Bowl ads. But you didn't see this one. Pro-choicers, whose control...

September 2019

September 13, 2019

Veggie Tales Reboot, but with the Gospel This Time

Veggie Tales was a ground-breaker in Christian programming for children, telling Bible stories and lessons...

April 2019

April 08, 2019

Tolkien the Television Series

Amazon Prime is producing a television series based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth,...

January 2018

January 18, 2018

And Now a TV Series about the Trump White House?

Get ready to fall through the postmodernist looking glass, in which all distinctions between fiction...

January 10, 2018

President Oprah Winfrey?

Talk show host and TV tycoon Oprah Winfrey gave a powerful speech on sexual harassment...

July 2017

July 17, 2017

The new Doctor Who is a woman

The latest regeneration of Doctor Who is a woman, played by Jodie Whittaker. The actress...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

Trump is good business for the liberal media

Ratings for the conservative Fox News are way down. The liberal MNBC, once hardly watched...

May 02, 2017

Fox News co-president is ousted

Fox News has been a successful conservative-leaning news network. But it seems to be coming...

April 2017

April 21, 2017

Sexual harassment brings down Bill O’Reilly

Fox News sacrificed its top-rated program by firing Bill O'Reilly for multiple charges of sexual...

January 2017

January 03, 2017

“Positive propaganda as the main theme”

Russia does it with RT. Arabs do it with Al Jazeera. Now, as of...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

In Sweden, Christmas means Donald Duck

Odd Christmas customs department: In Sweden, the country virtually shuts down on Christmas Eve at...

September 2016

September 12, 2016

Star Trek & the Gene Roddenberry myth

A classic has been defined as a work of art that still holds up after...