books
Throwback Thursday: Was Charles Dickens a Socialist?

Not on your life, asseverated G. K. Chesterton, as noted in a Literary Digest article ("Di...

manners-and-morals
The Left’s False Flag Operation

As has been all over the news, political activists are using a hideous crime to force r...

uncategorized
Gay Marriage as Trojan Horse

Jonathan Last at The Weekly Standard has the best explanation I've seen yet of  what real...

uncategorized
Progressive Burgers? I Don’t Think So

It seems that McDonald's Wants to Rebrand as a ‘Progressive Burger Company.’ From the ...

religion
Throwback Thursday: A New Edition of NAZI OAKS

Mark Musser has just updated his classic work on the origins of modern "environmentalism...

humor-2
Modern Progressivism is a Killjoy

On June 12, 1987 Ronald Reagan, in a speech in West Berlin, told Mikhail Gorbachev, the Ge...

culture101
Throwback Thursday – Does Size Alone Really Matter?

Those of you reading this who are not native-born Americans and who are therefore able to ...

sports
Tiger Woods: The Making of a Man

This past Saturday there were two historic events in sport. One captured the thrill of v...

culture101
American Pharoah, the Triple Crown, and the Real Appeal of Horse Racing

What a terrific race, and what an impressive victory by American Pharoah in Saturday's B...

sports
Is Today the Day for a Triple Crown?

Back before baseball, basketball and football became national pastimes there was boxing ...

literature-2
Throwback Thursday — Writing in Books

Do you write comments in the margins or the covers of your books? If you do, according to ...

movies
A Rock Critic Passes His Prime

I recall as a young child sitting with my four older sisters and big brother in front of t...

uncategorized
“The Spirit of Jewish Conservatism”—A Five-Part Symposium

Jewish conservatism might appear to be an oxymoron, but in the age of Barack Obama it is b...

television
It’s the Age of “Aquarius” on NBC

For those of you going through "Mad Men" withdrawals now that the series has ended, and ar...

fiction1
Mark Twain’s Caustic Satire

Satire, like every other rhetorical device developed over the centuries, can serve a usefu...

books
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) wrote some of the more intriguing science fiction of the latt...

uncategorized
Do Conservatives Really Suck at Pop Culture?

I don't generally like to use the "S" word, but according to Chicks on the Right, they rea...

theater
A Semi-Existentialist Comedy: Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”

At the beginning of this play, Rosencrantz (Rommell Witherspoon) and Guildenstern (Adam...

movies
The Avengers and Cultural Hope

My 13 year old Marvel loving son and I saw the latest Avengers blockbuster recently. I'd r...

television
Wayward Storytelling from M. Night Shyamalan

Wayward Pines, Idaho: A place where once-original ideas are recycled for the umpteenth t...

people
The Thrill Is Gone: RIP, B.B. King

Thirty years ago, this writer was granted an assignment to review a B. B. King concert at ...

journalism
Savoring Hillary’s Vow of Silence

The national media are sulking. Hillary Clinton won’t speak to them. But what is it ab...

movies
Actor Denzel Washington Urges Dillard University Graduates: ‘Put God First’

From ChristianNews.net: NEW ORLEANS, La. — Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington urged ...

sports
Tom Brady Is Not So Golden Now

I confess that I hate Tom Brady. Ever since the snot nosed kid beat my St. Louis (previous...

manners-and-morals
The Cycle of Poverty and the Culture of Poverty

Since Baltimore and its discontents broke upon the national scene a couple weeks ago, th...

books
More Imaginative Than Insightful: ‘The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty,’ by Amanda Filipacchi

There are three interrelated plot strands to The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty, a hi...

television
‘Happyish’ and the Media Status Struggle

Somewhere in what seems another lifetime, I once toiled in the agency business in the Moto...

civilsociety
Baltimore Riots: The Epic Fail of Modern Liberalism

After more than a hundred years of progressivism, it has come to this: public officials ...

music
Oreskes Descending: Science Hypocrisy of ‘Merchants of Doubt’

“This film has been carbon off-set.” Thus conclude the credits of the documentary Merc...

manners-and-morals
Kyle and Jenner: The Price of Fame is the Destruction of Heroism

“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doin...

books
‘Wolf Hall’ and the Anti-Catholic (and Anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, etc.) Moment

Writing at the Catholic Difference, Catholic scholar George Weigel presents a powerful t...

fiction1
Throwback Thursday: Getting Real—An American Critic’s Take on the Argument Over Realism and Romance

It often comes up: What kind of fiction do you like to read? Do you like your stories as r...

movies
A Few Gems Leaving Netflix Soon (Plus a Lot of Dreck . . .)

With only a couple of days left in the month, it's time to binge-watch Netflix movies an...