A journalist who has written extensively on the biblical and spiritual preoccupations of directors Joel and Ethan Coen says in “True Grit” they treat the Presbyterian moral code of fourteen-year-old narrator-heroine Mattie Ross with tenderness and empathy. More →

February 25, 2011

Right now, 36 states permit capital punishment for murder. Should that penalty be extended to those who rape children? More →

June 13, 2008