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Group Sues for Free-Speech Rights

Last summer, Christian demonstrators who were reportedly attacked and in fact stoned by ...

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SNL’s ‘Djesus’ Spoof Raises Laughs, Hackles

Last weekend's Saturday Night Live featured a parody movie trailer for Djesus Uncrossed, ...

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The Search for Ex-terrestrial Life

No, that's not a misprint in the title. Chances are that if — or when — NASA probes de...

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Letter From an Unknown Woman by Max Ophuls

I recently saw, for the third time over a space of many years, this well-made  (though ...

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Academia Will Not Tolerate Intolerance

I’m reading an interesting book that does an excellent job of explaining the predominant...

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Dave Clark Five’s Joyful Sound Remembered

Rick Huxley of the Dave Clark Five has died of emphysema at age 72. Huxley was the first...

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Polish Crime Novel Evokes Memories of Communist Terror

Zygmunt Mi?oszewski is an award-winning Polish author, writer of one of the few Polish cri...

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Children Die, and Still They Ignore the Family

The blindness to the obvious of the modern liberal is astounding, but never surprising. I ...

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Mystery Awards Celebrate Mediocrity, Do Genre Great Disservice

The Agatha Awards nominations for contemporary mystery fiction have just been announced, a...

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If You Think This Will Never Happen . . .

... then you've seriously underestimated eco-mania:

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Surprise: SNL Mocks the Mockable!

Those of us on the right are used to being mocked and ridiculed by the progressive enterta...

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Just a Coincidence?

I don't think so:  

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Is Immigration Amnesty an Example of Christian Compassion?

Bryan Fischer doesn't think so: Those waiting in line overseas would be happy to pay the s...

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The Population Bomb Bombed as Children Became a Choice

Growing up in the 1970s, my teenage years, and then into the 1980s, Western media proclaim...

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“1701 Pennsylvania Avenue”

Now we know what happened during those 18 minutes. Video: 11 minutes 2 seconds.

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Recovering Homosexual? Trouble on the Way, No Doubt

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the “girlfriend” Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o never met, s...

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Maintenance Alert

The web host for The American Culture is closing down, and we're in the process of transfe...

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Martin Sexton: “The American” and Cultural Relativism

Musical taste, like taste in general, is a funny thing. We live in an age where the reigni...

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‘Parker’ Brings Westlake Character to Screen Without Excessive Damage to Source

Anyone who follows my writings regularly knows that I am a very big fan of the late, great...

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Sexualization Blues in the New Britain—and What About the USA?

Writing in the Telegraph, columnist Allison Pearson rather cautiously and apologetically...

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What’s So Bad About Uncle Tom?

I’ve often wondered these several decades of my political awareness why the term “Uncl...

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Phil Mickelson Earned His Money and Should Retract His Apology About Taxes

Phil Mickelson, the affable "aw shucks" fan-favorite on the PGA Tour and one of the game...

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Q & A with João Cerqueira

João Cerqueira is the author of The Tragedy of Fidel Castro, the satirical novel recently...

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Book Review — ‘The Tragedy of Fidel Castro’

THE TRAGEDY OF FIDEL CASTRO — By João Cerqueira [Translated from the Portuguese by Kare...

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The Value of Traditional Marriage Seen in Its Demise

I’ll never forget an interview I heard with the current Secretary of Education Arne Dunc...

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Te’o Hoax Tars Notre Dame with Embarrassment

By now you've probably heard about the biggest culture story of the day: the girlfriend of...

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‘A Killer in the Wind’ Will Get into Your Head

See, I’d seen that look before. That wrinkled nose, that laughing sparkle in the eyes....

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Netflix Makes Smart Programming Move—But Further Opportunities Remain

Creeping back from the abyss, Netflix appears to be taking the smart road after its high...

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Review: Conservatives and Environmentalism

The moral high ground of environmentalism seemingly was ceded by free-market proponents ...

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Review: 1890s Sleuths in Enjoyable Mysteries in Holmes-Era U.S.

It’s San Francisco in the 1890s. John Quincannon and Sabina Carpenter have partnered u...

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Poem: An Untitled Contemplation of Life’s Continuation

The following poem, which we present with the permission of the author, is another in our ...

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“Altamont Augie”: The 60s Counter Culture Come Alive

My first book of the New Year turned out to be a very good one, a first novel  by Richard...

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Book Review — ‘The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas’

THE CASEBOOK OF JONAS P. JONAS — By E. X. Ferrars — Edited by John Cooper — 2012 —...