manners-and-morals
Can the State Inspire Moral Clarity and Courage?

Few would argue that laws reflect the nation’s values. The real debate is law's abilit...

movies
Jack Bauer Is Dead. . . .

... at least on Fox come May after the conclusion of it's eighth "day," otherwise known ...

movies
Woody Allen’s Big Blind Spot

It's not inherently a bad thing that the characters in Woody Allen's movies tend to be v...

mysteries
CW’s ‘Melrose Place’ Remake Shows Promise

      The CW network's new mystery-drama soap opera Melrose ...

commerce
‘Friday the 13th’ Sets Opening Weekend Box Office Record; Besson Film Stays Strong

   Warner Bros' and producer Michael Bay's remake of the influential 1980 h...

genres
TNT’s ‘Leverage’ Shows Promise

     TNT"s new series, Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton, is...

uncategorized
FX Series ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Tackles New Formula with Ambitions

The FX drama series Sons of Anarchy plays to an increasingly common formula, but does it w...

journalism
Scientists Present Ultimate No-Fault Divorce Theory

Study suggests tendency to unfaithfulness and divorce is genetic.  (more…)

television
Unusual Moral Concerns in a Sitcom

 Back to You is an idea devised in TV programmer's Heaven: get the star of Frasier an...

manners-and-morals
Free Will, Determinism, and Pop Culture

The central moral issue of the past century was whether a traditional (in fact, millennias...

commerce
Movies for Good Girls

A new wave of movies aimed at young girls is coming, starting this Friday with the theatri...

uncategorized
The Inestimable Larry Miller

Larry Miller is one of the funniest comedians around. Rather like a younger Bob Newhart bu...

commerce
Macy’s Name Change Backfires

Sometimes it's important to respect traditions and follow conventional morality even when ...