Colleen A. Sheehan

Dec 22, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Emina Melonic |Graham McAleer |Colleen A. Sheehan |Aaron Rhodes

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray teamed up many times on the silver screen, most notably in Billy Wilder’s noir masterpiece, Double Indemnity (1944). They would go on to star in three more pictures, but their first appearance together as the main stars was in Mitchell Leisen’s Remember the Night (1940). Its blend of comedy and drama was characteristic of American movies at the time, and adding the season of Christmas and New Year’s to the film rendered it relatable, albeit in an unusual way.

Dec 22, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Richard Jordan |Graham McAleer |Colleen A. Sheehan |Aaron Rhodes

Creative destruction is the engine of capitalism—the dynamism whereby new products and new markets displace old ones, reordering society and lifting the rich and the poor a little farther up from the mud. A new Ford replaces a horse-drawn carriage, and suddenly travel is cheap and the streets are clean. Of course, it is rather a hard bargain for the blacksmith and the horse, one of whom may end up on the dole and the other in a bottle of Elmer’s. But that’s life. Or at least, that’s capitalism.

Dec 22, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |Graham McAleer |Colleen A. Sheehan |Aaron Rhodes

Cary Grant was the most beautiful man in old Hollywood, the kind of actor that made people think of words like star. Katharine Hepburn may have been the most admired actress, at least to judge by her four Oscars. They seem to have been made to be a screen couple in the era of romantic comedies, but this hardly ever happened. Their first such pairing, Bringing up Baby (1938), was a box office failure, though now considered a classic.

Dec 21, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Seana Sugrue |Graham McAleer |Colleen A. Sheehan |Aaron Rhodes

Antisemitic hate speech is back on college campuses across America in the wake of the horrific Israel-Hamas war. The hypocrisy of college administrators and faculty, who police the use of pronouns, while permitting Jewish students to live in fear, is an outrage. Yet defenders of free speech on college campuses should hesitate before they demand more censorship. Such censorial powers would undoubtedly be used to marginalize reasonable religious and conservative dissenters further.

Dec 21, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Donald L. Drakeman |Graham McAleer |Colleen A. Sheehan

The seasons of Advent and Christmas bring more classical music to American ears than any other time of year. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is sung to a tune by Mendelssohn. The season isn’t complete without a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker or Handel’s Messiah. And of course, Josh Groban’s recording of the Schubert Ave Maria is piped into virtually every shopping mall. Today’s constitutional miracle tale centers on a different Ave Maria, one initially written for a group of Bavarian firemen.