mysteries
‘Mentalist’ Presents Tea Party Separatist Group in Positive Light

Sunday night's episode of the CBS-TV crime drama The Mentalist had a couple of interesti...

mysteries
From Sherlock to Schlock

This is actually a good time to talk about the BBC series Sherlock, season three of which...

movies
Quiet Charms in Batra’s ‘Lunchbox’

The Lunchbox, written and directed by Ritesh Batra, is a sort of love story set in contemp...

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Sometimes Hollywood Gets it Right

At The American Culture we believe that American culture is not one big cesspool of decay ...

mysteries
‘Ritual’ Mystery Novel Ruined by Cliches, Politics, Spiritualist Advocacy

I really like the reviewing work of Steve Steinbock in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine....

humor-2
When Harold Met Norm–The Real Harold Ramis

If you want to know a little more about Harold Ramis, the widely admired comic actor-write...

movies
Oscar Winner McConaughey Credits God, Family, Hard Work for His Success

Actor Matthew McConaughey's acceptance speech for the Motion Picture Academy's Best Actor ...

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Charles C. W. Cooke: Are Atheism and Conservatism Compatible? It’s Not So Simple

A day or so after I'd written a piece about the implication of atheism for society in Dost...

mysteries
Dark, Gritty ‘Mirror Image’ Offers Psychological Mystery-Suspense

Dennis Palumbo’s novel Mirror Image is the first in a series of books about Dr. Daniel...

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Marco Rubio Tears Communism Apart After Democrat Praises Cuba

Tom Harkin is a Democrat from Iowa, and like other Democrats is a person of the left who h...

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Dostoevsky, Prophet

I just finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Devils. It’s not for the faint of heart. I...

books
‘Chas’ Novel Explores Dependence on Technology, Family

CHAS: FORESHADOWING DESTINY — By Mike Arthur — Novel — Westbow Press — 2013 — T...

movies
Ritchie-Directed ‘Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ Film to Open Next Jan. 16

A new film based on the 1960s TV spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., directed by Guy Ritch...

manners-and-morals
Is ‘Black-on-Black Crime’ Really a Lie?

You may have heard of the growing epidemic of white people killing defenseless black peopl...

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Fallon Tonight Show Debut and the Culture of Cynicism

Having grown up with The Tonight Show in the Johnny Carson era (my folks watched it every ...

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New York Times Almost Swerves Into the Truth, Then Crashes

When you see an article in The New York Times about marriage you can pretty much guess wha...

television
‘House of Cards’: One Righteous Man

Fans of the critically acclaimed Netflix original series House of Cards are eagerly awaiti...

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The Tebow Double Standard

By now everyone has had enough of the cultural phenomenon that is Tim Tebow. Well, maybe n...

mysteries
‘Psych’ Out at USA Network

Finally putting the rumors to rest, USA Network has announced the cancellation of long-run...

mysteries
The Daft and the Furious: BBC Resumes Father Brown Abuse

In September of last year, I absolutely lost it. If you’re a regular reader of this site...

theater
Yellow Face at Theater J in Washington, D.C.

Race is a notoriously difficult subject to address in the United States, but David Henry...

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Where Did That Pinky Come From?

I am a fan of The Twilight Zone, as are most pop culture appreciating Americans. Every yea...

culture-and-economics
Things Have Changed

Poor Pete Seeger.  Not even dead a week, and he’s already rolling over in his grave. ...

theater
Richard III at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C.

The Folger Theatre has given us a  fine production of Shakespeare's play about the rise...

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Hollywood’s Anachronistic Tendencies

Hollywood is nothing if not formulaic, and part of the formula for a left-wing dominated H...

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Harvard Study Finds That Family Matters

Who knew? The modern left-liberal claims to care about the little guy, income inequality a...

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Group Think and the Grammys

I heard there was a music industry awards show recently, something called the Grammys (who...

education
Divided by a Common Language — Thoughts From a Century Ago

Even before the colonies split away from England, the British tended to treat America as s...

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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of America

We all know about the totalitarian mindset of much of the gay rights movement. Live and le...

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Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, The Humanities Have Got to Go!

In case you hadn’t heard, UCLA recently told Western civilization to go to Hell. This of...

philosophy
Book Review: ‘Wrath or Rest’

WRATH OR REST: SAINTS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD — By R. Mark Musser — Advantage Ins...

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Yousuf Karsh: American Portraits

Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) was an Armenian who emigrated to Canada as an adolescent and be...

fiction1
Nudity, Naturalism, and ‘Girls’

Like 887,000 Americans, I have now seen Lena Dunham naked. Ms. Dunham, as I’m sure yo...