After 9/11 many Muslims began saying “Islam is a religion of peace.” An intellectually dishonest and vapid response to the equally intellectually dishonest and vapid statement that “Islam is a ...

How conservatives out-intellectualized progressives. Progressivism is a powerful ideology. But it is pernicious in its dismissal of the past. Newsletter sign up Newsletter ...

Amir Nikravan’s paintings occupy the preternaturally calm eye of a cerebral storm. They spur a heady buzz of questions, yet are rather quiet, visually. They exist for the sake of contradiction ...

A featherweight episode in Catherine Breillat's ongoing exploration of desire, sex and power, "Brief Crossing" is another ponderously intellectualized but trite post-feminist study in seduction ...

Pedro Costa’s strict adherence to formalism will excite his base, while others will be less enthralled by his rigidly composed images used to generate intellectualized emotions. Frequently ...