“The law says that every teacher, all public-­school teachers, have to post the Ten Commandments in the front of their classroom, in a certain size font, and that they’re legally obligated to do this.

Around the planet, so many human beings — in so many circumstances — could use this kind of joy. But in a world that offered ...

The experience was far from magical. The Jon M. Chu-directed film is certainly a spectacle; the estimated $150 million production budget is evident. And the ingenuity and wit of the original ...