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Louis C.K. Channels His Inner Woody Allen

By now a lot of people know that comedian Louis C.K., doesn’t like smartphones; I beca...

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Newswalk: 3D Printers, the Limitations of Mathematics, and Darwinists on the Prowl

"Next Government Crackdown: 3D Printers" According to Phil Elmore (WND, September 18, 201...

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Astros Set Record-Low 0.0 TV Rating, but Still Rake in Cable Money

The Houston Astros Major League Baseball team set a record this week, and it is a dubious ...

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Jonah Goldberg on the Profound Messages from “Breaking Bad”

I started watching Breaking Bad on Netflix some time ago, but watched very intermittently....

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The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic

The theme of this intriguing book is captured  by Claes G, Ryn when he writes in "The...

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Is America Really Exceptional?

American Exceptionalism has been in the news the last few weeks thanks to one Vladimir Vla...

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After the Revolution by Amy Herzog

This is a play, in part, about the romance of communism and how it plays out in one Jew...

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A ‘Star Trek’ Parody

After the Red Shirt Bandit It's a well-known fact that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry...

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A Godawful ‘Father Brown’

You have no idea how long it’s taken me to write this post. I’ve been trying to sit do...

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Confronting the Administrative State

Getting one bureaucracy (in this case Congress) to reform another bureaucracy (that hideou...

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Is Hercule Poirot About to Be Murdered?

The good news: there will be a new mystery novel featuring the classic detective character...

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Are Barack and Michelle Obama Bad People?

Well, according to a managing editor at Slate, Allison Benedikt (hmmm, what does that last...

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A Desperate Man by Claes G. Ryn

Unemployment is high  in the United States and there are countless demonstrations becau...

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Claude Miller’s Film “Therese Desqueyroux”

This Claude Miller film is a fairly quietly done, competent adaptation of  the Francois...

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DVD Review: Whit Stillman’s ‘Damsels in Distress’

The first time I watched "Damsels in Distress," Whit Stillman’s most recent (after a t...

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God or “Unfathomable Luck”: You Decide

Atheists often prattle on about how there is no evidence for the existence of God, and tha...

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Thoughts from a Century Ago: “Baseball Slang Defended”

It just goes to show how lively, adaptable, and just plain wonderful the English language ...

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Thoughts from a Century Ago: “On a Certain Condescension in Reformers”

It's bad enough when you've never heard of this or that cause, but to be put down for it ....

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On Seamus Heaney and ‘Success’

Seamus Heaney, perhaps the greatest Irish poet – and certainly the Irish poet receiving ...

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John Be Nimble, John Be Quick

Sometimes keeping your skirts clean might involve jumping over a mud puddle and into oncom...

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What Kind of Parents Produce a Miley Cyrus?

Well, since it’s the hot topic of the week I may as well hop on the Miley Cyrus bandwago...

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‘Henry Wood Detective Agency’ Is Solid Entertainment

From time to time, I review a novel and tell you that I admired the writing, but did not...

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Children and Cultural Norms

The cover of the latest edition of Time magazine features two beautiful people, a man and ...

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Leonard, Michaels and the Passing of American Values

Two prominent authors of crime fiction left us in the last week, but only one received muc...

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‘Unlimited’ Has Limits, But Rewards the Reader

Simon Orwell is a bartender who used to be an electrical engineer. When we first encount...

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Albert Murray RIP

Albert Murray, one of the giants of American culture, died last weekend.  He was 97 years...

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Russian Athletes’ Kiss Sparks Political Speculation

Now that American homosexual-advocacy groups rule the United States, they are trying to ad...

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Breaking Bad’s Final Season Off to a Great Start

Breaking Bad’s final season is off with a bang, with two of the strongest episodes in th...

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Detective Stories, Democracy, and Rule of Law

In his classic book on Golden Age mysteries, Murder for Pleasure, the critic Howard Haycra...

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Daniel Day Lewis is Scary Good as Lincoln

Living in the land of Lincoln for way too many years, we’ve talked of heading down to Sp...

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Book Review: ‘Island of the White Rose’

Island of the White Rose - By R. Ira Harris - Bridge Works Publishing - 2013 - Hardcover -...

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Critiquing the Record of Our ‘Scientist-in-Chief’

An intellectual journal called The New Atlantis has an excellent 10-year-record of worki...

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Getting Serious about Humor

The "progressive" urge to improve society from top to bottom—first flourishing in modern...