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movies
TCM Thrillers (October 26 – November 1)

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journalism
Mass Media and Individual Liberty

     The American media were once steeped in a culture of liberty...

philosophy
Educational Achievement Gap Reflects Breakdown of the Family

    A public school teacher argues that the achievement gap between wh...

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Recommended: Interview with Steven F. Hayward, Author of ‘The Age of Reagan’

    Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis—who write a weekly political point-co...

philosophy
Abortionist Reflects on Dismembering a Baby While Feeling Her Own Flutter in Her Womb

A big part of people’s ambivalence about abortion stems from a refusal to acknowledg...

journalism
CNN Explores Conservative Talk Radio, the Last ‘Dark Continent’

  CNN, fresh off being dubbed a "real" news organization by the Obama ...

mysteries
ABC’s ‘Forgotten’ Is Solid Crime Drama with Values

    ABC's The Forgotten is a worthy addition to producer Jerry Bruckheimer'...

journalism
Andrew Breitbart Takes on “Objective” Journalism

     It is becoming increasingly obvious that the whole edifice o...

books
Review: Celebrated Mystery Novelist James Offers Thoughts on Genre

        Mystery writer P. D. James appreciates cla...

commerce
‘Wild Things’ Leads Healthy U.S. Movie Box Office

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omniculture
The Presumptions of (Neuro)Science

    Are belief in God and belief in science all that different? Mike D...

omniculture
Rush, the Rams, and Crying Racism

 For daring to be part of a group bidding for the NFL's St. Louis Rams, Rush Limbaugh...

movies
TCM Thrillers (October 19 – 25)

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omniculture
License, The Illusion of Liberty, Turns into Tyranny

   Throwing off all moral conventions, the counterculture believers of the ...

books
PIGs Without Lipstick

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television
The Twilight Zone’s Jewish soul

   The Twilight Zone taught real truths about the human condition. (more&...

books
Book Review: ‘Wolf Hall’

The newly released historical novel Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, sounds very interesting. ...

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Schaffer’s ‘Brutal Legend’ Released

A new video game by the author of the classic Monkey Island series and Grim Fandango has j...

television
DirecTV’s ‘Friday Night Lights’ Returns

 After barely surviving last season, the excellent TV drama Friday Night Lights has b...

commerce
‘Couples,’ ‘Paranormal’ Show Value of Genre Traditions

   The unexpectedly strong box office perfomance of both Couples Retreat an...

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“Mad Man” Makes Conservative Intellectual Elite See Red

     After decades of the conservative punditocracy calling the s...

movies
TCM Thrillers (October 12 – 18)

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Reader Comment of the Week: Nobel Prize

      And the medal goes to . . . (more…)

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Low U.S. Troop Morale in Afghanistan Reflects Doubts About Mission

Exemplifying the great cultural gulf between those who build the country and those who rul...

television
Review, Video Clip: ‘South Park’ Season Premiere Praised

Keynotes:The ceaseless flow of bad taste that South Park emits like lava from a volcano er...

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NBC Cancels ‘Southland’

NBC has canceled the critically acclaimed police drama Southland before airing a single ep...

people
Obama Awarded Nobel Prize

       President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobe...

genres
ABC’s ‘FlashForward’ Builds on Interesting Premise

     The interesting new ABC series FlashForward is part of a tre...