Altitude Film Sales has boarded high concept survival thriller “The Wreck” and will introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming Cannes virtual market. Based on a screenplay by Nick Saltrese (“Jetski,” “A Prayer Before Dawn”), the film will follow a group of old college friends who reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring
Covid cases worldwide:
I think it makes more sense to look at all regions rather than individual countries (even if we know, for example, that WHO’s Southeast Asia is mostly India by sheer weight of numbers, even though many individual countries are having issues). And why is Africa such an enormous outlier? Readers?
Politics
“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Biden Administration
“Biden Administration Defends Huge Alaska Oil Drilling Project” [New York Times]. “The Biden administration is defending a huge Trump-era oil and gas project in the North Slope of Alaska designed to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years, despite President Biden’s pledge to pivot the countr
Academics posted Andrew J. Concatelli
Faculty members at Trinity College are responding to the global climate crisis by offering new courses that address climate change through various academic disciplines.
Professor of Physics and Environmental Science Christoph Geiss
“It’s a problem that affects every single person on this planet not just environmental science majors,” said Professor of Physics and Environmental ScienceChristoph Geiss. “To solve this climate crisis, the economists have to figure out how to have a functioning economy that is sustainable; political science people need to deal with the social and equity issues; and in times of distress, people turn to the arts. We’re all involved in this and we all can contribute, so this subject has to permeate the entire curriculum and the entire student body.”
By Bill Donohue | March 4, 2021 | 9:39am EST
Joe Biden participates in a Democratic presidential debate. (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Everyone knew that Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) was proudly Jewish, so there was no need to persuade the public of his religious status. Similarly, it is widely recognized that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is a practicing Mormon, therefore making moot attempts to prove he is. President Biden is different. Not a day goes by without some commentators, usually left-wing Catholics, trying to convince the public that he is a model Catholic.
This is disingenuous. If Biden were a model Catholic, there would be no need to assure us that he is. Even his fans know he isn t, otherwise they wouldn t waste so much energy on this issue. What galvanizes them is their war with the bishops.
Khyati Joshi joins Religion News Service as new columnist
Religion News Service (RNS), thanks to a grant from the Guru Krupa Foundation, is pleased to announce that Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi has joined RNS as a columnist covering Hindus and Hinduism. Her first column focuses on Vice President Kamala Harris’ “embodied diversity” and how Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff offer a model for interfaith families.
Joshi is a professor of education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and a social science researcher whose work focuses on the intersections of race and religion in the United States.
“I’m looking forward to writing about current events and emerging issues that illuminate how religion is lived in America. My writing will combine my scholarship with stories from the daily experiences and sensations of being neither White nor Christian in a country where both are normative,” said Professor Joshi