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The Golden Age of Rock n’ Roll

I’ve remarked to my children several thousand times how great the rock n’ roll era fro...

movies
TCM Thrillers (February 15 – 21)

This week: * Monday—A film noir musical? * Tuesday—Bogie battles HUAC in absentia. * T...

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Why Are Conservatives Rare on College Faculties? Blame It on the Conservative Movement

There has been a bit of internet discussion on this question the last week or so, and a go...

commerce
Obama Wants Control of Internet, aka Net Neutrality

Who owns the internet? We all do, but the government wants it: (more…)

books
Q & A with Douglas Greene of C & L

Douglas Greene, übereditor and biographer, runs that fine publishing house known as Cripp...

theater
The Politics of (Singing and) Dancing

The acclaimed suspense novelist, screenwriter, and essayist Andrew Klavan notes that a gro...

mysteries
Sympathy for the Killer Drives New Christie Adaptation

By Curt Evans Agatha Christie's 1934 detective novel Three Act Tragedy, which recently ...

commerce
That Fascist Green Police Ad is Stuck in My Head

And that’s the point, I guess. Watch this ad for a “clean diesel” car by Audi, and g...

movies
Ian Carmichael, superb comedy actor

Ian Carmichael, the appealing and highly talented British actor who played Lord Peter Wims...

omniculture
Interview with the Creative Minds Behind “Grand Theft Audio”

Comedian and Big Hollywood contributor Carl Kozlowski, “cyclone of information” and as...

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Climate Scientist to Colleagues: Don’t Dismiss Climategate

The 13th Annual Energy & Environment Conference, held in Phoenix Feb. 1-3, isn’t th...

movies
TCM Thrillers (February 8 – 14)

This week: * Monday—Gregory Peck gets beached, Burt Lancaster gets benched. * Tuesday�...

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The Narrative that Drives American Politics Is Sustained by Culture

In an almost excellent article at the Weekly Standard, Jeff Bergner tells us that the only...

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Satirical Mysteries from James Powell

A Pocketful of Noses: Stories of One Ganelon or Another by James Powell Crippen & Land...

books
A Romantically Comic Novel That Will Set You Thinking

Fire Me: A Tale of Scheming, Dreaming and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places by  L...

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Who’s to Blame for Dearth of Conservative and Libertarian Professors?

That is a very good question asked by Daniel B. Klein at Minding the Campus. Two researche...

journalism
NPR Reinforces Breitbart’s Reason for Being

On its surface NPR provides what appears as a fairly balanced report about Andrew Breitbar...

movies
Oscar Nominees Announced

The Motion Picture Academy of America has announced the nominees for the upcoming Academy ...

movies
Avatar Review: The Worst Blue Movie I’ve Ever Seen

Conservatives have been quick to criticize the megahit movie Avatar for the liberal boiler...

commerce
‘Avatar’ Is Biggest Moneymaker

Yes, Avatar is about to become the top-grossing movie of all time, but it's far from being...

books
Ralph McInerny, R.I.P.

After a long illness Notre Dame professor and author of Father Dowling mysteries died Frid...

worldviews
A Culture Without Fathers Is a Culture of Death

Last September a young black man was beaten to death on the south side of Chicago, and thi...

books
Fiction Friday

Some in Hollywood might think folks on the Right have limited artistic ability and should ...

worldviews
Only the Left can Judge Cultural Influence

Recognizing a novelist’s, filmmaker’s, or visual artist’s influence on society is pe...

movies
TCM Thrillers (February 1 – 7)

This week: * Monday—Ingrid Bergman plots revenge—say it ain't so. * Tuesday—Alec Gui...

books
Private Eye Fiction by S. J. Rozan

A Tale About a Tiger and Other Mysterious Events by S. J. Rozan Crippen & Landru Publi...

journalism
Inglorious Controversy

A quite revealing exchange has broken out between the acclaimed novelist and screenwrite...

movies
Eastwood, Winfrey Top Polls

Harris Interactive's annual polls of public opinion of entertainers found Clint Eastwood a...

noteworthy
Eastwood Voted Top Film Star

Harris Interactive's annual polls of public opinion of entertainers found Clint Eastwood t...

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Sci-Fi Classic: ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’

David Lindsay's 1920s novel A Voyage to Arcturus is a great work of philosophical fiction,...

comic-books-graphic-novels
Marvel Comics Change

Marvel Comics will move away from "darker" story lines and characterizations, and  "heroe...

manners-and-morals
Networks Raising the Bar on TV Sex

The woman in the Monty Python sketch was right when she said she's against sex on the tele...

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Live-blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address

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