In assessing international conflicts, there is a near-universal obsession with trying to determine victory and defeat: who “won” and who “lost.” When it comes to Middle East conflicts, let me invoke ...

Folk rocker John R. Miller can be dry and understated, but get beneath the surface and you’ll find an artist keen to write ...

American Religious Belief in Extraterrestrial Life (Princeton Univ., Sept.) argues that several American religious traditions ...

Secret Wars turns Thor into a new kind of god.

Between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, two physicists, Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, published a controversial series of papers arguing that extraterrestrial intelligence didn't exist. As they argued ...

With "Disclosure Day," Spielberg has composed a benediction for all who hold faith: that we might find, and share, a ...

Steven Spielberg, who made what are arguably the two preeminent films about alien encounters, returns to that well of inspiration in his newest sci-fi wonderment, Disclosure Day.

In the following six books, each writer looks to space to skillfully explore what it means to live on Earth. Salvation and ...

Confronted with AI, we tend to split, apocalypse vs utopia. Psychoanalytically, doomer and zoomer make similar ...

Locations from a Catskills quarry to an upstate diner and a Pfizer campus in Rockland County were crucial to “Disclosure Day.

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Director Steven Spielberg released “Close Encounters of the Third Kind ...