books
Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Attacked, Defended

Author Harper Lee and her groundbreaking novel To Kill a Mockingbird have received a well-...

manners-and-morals
‘The Second Day of July, 1776, Will Be the Most Memorable Epocha in the History of America…’

Independence Day may be my favorite holiday. Sure, I love Christmas and Thanksgiving, and ...

journalism
James Cameron vs. Glenn Beck

"King of the World" director James Cameron is holding a grudge over Glenn Beck making a jo...

journalism
The Sad Decline of Peggy Noonan

It's almost getting tiresome to me, this picking on Peggy Noonan for her naivete concern...

television
Forget the White House: Imagine the Sarah Palin Show

As time goes by, more folks on the Right realize that there’s more to America than what...

philosophy
Surprise: Daily Kos Poll Identifies Republicans As Extremists

Before I comment on the results of the poll, one question: Where are the polls that show...

omniculture
The Mount Vernon Statement – Well-intentioned but Short-Sighted

Conservative leaders got together and decided, “What we need to do now is pretty much wh...

uncategorized
Live-blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address

President Obama will be delivering his first State of the Union address on Wednesday night...

commerce
‘Up’ Success Could Bode Well for Positive Change in Hollywood

   The unexpectedly big box-office and critical success of the animated fil...

commerce
Studios, Filmmakers to Blame for Hollywood Dramas’ Lack of Box Office Appeal

    Escape was the theme once again for U.S. moviegoers last weekend-b...

comic-books-graphic-novels
‘Watchmen’ Graphic Novel Is As Good As They Say

        The Watchmen graphic novel is indeed a fin...

uncategorized
Is It Time to Reject the Label of ‘Conservatives’?

       The term 'conservative' has become confusing to ...

philosophy
It’s the Culture, Stupid!

    Facing a serious beating in the upcoming elections, the American r...

television
Emmy Winners, Presenters Slam Bush, Palin, Republicans in General

  To the surprise of no thinking person, the honorees at this year's Emmy Awards...

television
SNL Season Premiere Lays Egg

   Saturday Night Live's season-opening episode was marred by blatant polit...

commerce
Hollywood Veterans, New Film Challenge Industry’s Far-Left Orthodoxy

Hollywood conservatives are increasingly coming out of the closet and defying the McCarthy...

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The Agonizingly Slow Tidal Change in U.S. Academia

The last bastion of statism and the passion for political coercion, the American academy, ...

manners-and-morals
The Legacy of George Carlin

The comedian George Carlin should be remembered for his silly humor, not his politics.&nbs...

commerce
Oscars Draw Record-Low TV Audience

In addition to the low box office numbers for most of the films nominated for Academy Awar...

genres
A Dangerous Mystery Writer

TAC Mystery Fiction Correspondent Mary Reed reviews a classic novel by English suspense wr...

television
Spike TV’s “The Kill Point”

Season 1 of the Spike TV series The Kill Point concludes tonight with a two-hour episode. ...

theater
Making Fun of Muslim Politics

A sign of hope for the UK: a group of jesters at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has put on ...

commerce
Biased BBC

Not that it should surprise anybody, a year-long internal investigation by the British Bro...

uncategorized
Leftists’ Perversion of Free-Market Lingo

One of the clever things leftists do is take good words and pervert them to mean the exact...

uncategorized
The Opiate of the Elite

In a comment on our Hollywood Politics post of yesterday, Robert Champ, a literary instruc...

prose-fiction
Orwell on Wodehouse

In a comment on my item on Wodehouse Playhouse, regular visitor Mike quotes George Orwell'...

manners-and-morals
Why We Hate

Peter Wood, the brilliant anthropologist and author of the new book A Bee in the Mouth: An...

uncategorized
Liberals and Statists

Here are some thoughts in our continuing discussion of political nomenclature, in which we...