My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Unfortunately our children today seem to spend less and less time with their overworked parents, and so they draw more information about the world from the images on movie and TV screens. The true power of the media is the ability to redefine reality, to alter our expectations about what constitutes normal life. TV and the movies have abused that power by advancing the notion that wholesome, ordinary happiness is impossible.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence

An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.