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TCM Thrillers (July 19 – 25)

This week: * Monday—It's a sci-fi blitz! * Tuesday—Destroy a few German cannons? Piece...

manners-and-morals
Woods Shows Good Character in Spontaneous Gesture

A classy gesture by Tiger Woods at the British Open in St. Andrews, Scotland: Woods steps ...

books
Fiction Friday: Stories, News, Reviews & Opinion From the Publishing World

News of publishing's demise is greatly exaggerated. Wander into any bookstore, be it a ...

movies
“Elling” Questions Norwegian Liberalism

I have a great love for the country of Norway,  land of most of my ancestors. I study its...

books
‘Alternating Worlds’—Gary Wolf and the Definition of Humanity

Alternating Worlds by Gary Wolf iUniverse, Inc. ISBN-10: 0-595-34002-4 ISBN-13: 978-059534...

uncategorized
Academia’s Phony ‘Diversity’ Prejudices Documented

W. S. Moore III notes that campus diversity stops at the Mason-Dixon line and the white ...

manners-and-morals
Jackson: LeBron Treated Like ‘Runaway Slave’

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the nation's foremost professional race-card player, said billiona...

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

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

movies
Will Declaration Entertainment Cure What Ails American Culture?

“I hate Hollywood! A bunch of Lefties producing nothing but anti-American, anti-business...

culture101
TCM Thrillers (July 12 – 18)

This week: * Monday—Wrestlers, boxers, and jewel thieves in hot water. * Tuesday—Grego...

books
A Lesson about the Second Amendment for Young Gun Owners

With My Rifle by My Side: A Second Amendment Lesson by Kimberly Jo Simac, with illustratio...

people
Can Being a ‘Global Warming Denier’ Make You an Enemy of the State? Frank Tipler Says Yes

Frank Tipler, a cosmologist, and Freeman Dyson, a polymath, are among those credentiale...

commerce
Entertainment Prices Outstrip Inflation

Entertainment prices are rising much more rapidly than the overall inflation rate. (more...

culture101
George M. Cohan: America’s Cheerleader

July is a time for patriotism in the United States, and much very good music has been writ...

culture101
‘Avatar’—A “Push for a Return to Neo-pagan Animism/Pantheism”

In his January review of James Cameron's latest effort, "Avatar and the 'New' Evolutionary...

philosophy
DNA, Nature’s God, and America’s Political Freedom

On the Discovery Institute's Evolution News & Views weblog, Stephen C. Meyer unites sc...

books
Stephen King Strikes Out with ‘Blockade Billy’

Baseball inspires great stories. W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe and Bernard Malamud’s T...

television
Weekly TCM Update, July 5-10

The Culture Doctor is in: Mike Gray's weekly update of uncut classic movies on TV is here....

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (10)

From John Hancock (after signing the Declaration of Independence): There, I guess King Geo...

movies
TCM Thrillers (July 5 – 11)

This week: * Monday—Buster Keaton just wants his train back. * Tuesday—Look for the bi...

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 ...

books
The World of ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’—George Orwell’s Unhappy School Days Writ Large

In a recent article (also available as a podcast), "The Brilliant but Confused Radicali...

music
Musician Shawn Phillips on U.S. Tour

The brilliant folk-rock singer and songwriter Shawn Phillips is on a U.S. tour. See him if...

books
U.S. Publishers Head Overseas for New Crime Novels

Foreign menace strikes! Overseas crime novels are flooding U.S. shores, as American publis...

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (9)

From Ralph Waldo Emerson: America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appea...

manners-and-morals
Another Gibson Tirade Claimed

Mel Gibson has reportedly been caught in another profanity-laced tirade which included vil...

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (8)

From John Adams: I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as...

mysteries
‘Law and Order: Criminal Intent’ Imagines Christianity Disproven

Law and Order: Criminal Intent, the long-running spinoff of the recently canceled TV crime...

movies
UK Film to Depict Israelis as Terrorists

A forthcoming British film will portray post-World War II Israeli Zionists as terrorists, ...

manners-and-morals
Study: Casual Sexual Attitudes Not Women’s Choice, Lead to Depression

By Bethany Stotts Casual sex, common on many college campuses, leaves many female studen...

culture101
Thoughts for Independence Day (7)

From Benjamin Franklin: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunc...

manners-and-morals
A Pastoral Letter From the Future

A PASTORAL LETTER From Bishop Judith Hardanger-Hansen Dearly beloved, There has been co...

manners-and-morals
Interesting Culture War Skirmish in NC

A coalition of atheists and secularists in North Carolina claims they want to "unite Ameri...