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Even Mainstream Media Turns on Obama

Earlier this month I came across a piece in the LA Times with a title we thought we’d ne...

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Edgar & Annabel

The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC is staging the U.S. premier of British playwright ...

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’12 Years a Slave’ and America’s Original Sin

The modern liberal will never forgive America for slavery. The stain can never be washed a...

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Polygamy and Phil Robertson

It seems that those who championed the redefinition of marriage to make gender arbitrary a...

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Christopher’s Ghosts by Charles McCarry

Charles McCarry is arguably the greatest American practitioner of spy fiction.  He him...

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Does Job make Atheism Plausible?

We all know about the problem of evil or theodicy, how can a good and benevolent God allow...

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Child Poverty and Single Parents

A lot has happened since our cultural revolution of the 1960s. People became liberated and...

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‘Wire’ Creator Calls for More Socialism

David Simon, onetime journalist and the creator and producer of the award-winning TV drama...

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Liberty21 and the American Enterprise Institute Panel Discussion on Culture and Economics

The Liberty21 Institute and the American Enterprise Institute hosted a panel discussion la...

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Do We Take Popular Culture Way Too Seriously?

Reading through the paper version of Friday’s Wall Street Journal I saw a headline that ...

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Whilst We Slept

America finds itself at a tipping point. Change is happening and it’s coming in the form...

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Iconoclasts Writing the Nation’s Cultural Script

The problems facing America today transcend politics, yet are enabled by politics. Politic...

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Mamet’s War Stories: Challenging but Rewarding

I do not understand that discipline called “Ethnography,” which seems to me the valid...

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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri has been an uncommonly sensitive, elegant, and restrained writer.  Her f...

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Whence Human Nature?

Recently I made a statement to my wife as we were watching some TV program to the effect t...

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Shaping society: The Intersection of Economics and Culture

What has economics to do with culture? Or culture with economics? More than we might think...

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Book Review: ‘Thy Will Be Done’

THY WILL BE DONE: WHEN ALL NATIONS CALL GOD BLESSED — By Ronald W. Kirk — Nordskog Pub...

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Surprise Hit “Sleepy Hollow” is Surprise Fun

What comes to mind when you see the words Sleepy Hollow? If you’re not a fan of popular ...

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We Have a Winner!

João Cerqueira informs us that his novel The Tragedy of Fidel Castro has won THE USA BEST...

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Trans Fats, Liberty and the Constitution

When I first saw the headline last week, “FDA to ban trans fats” I was typically disgu...

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“With Just a Dash of Tumult and Panache”: Russell Kirk’s Fiction

Russell Kirk is most well known for his political writings, but, like most of us, he had b...

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Thoughts from a Century Ago: “A Word for Autumn”

The anonymous author of this piece muses on the season he thinks isn't really appreciated ...

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‘Solomon Kane’ is an Able Effort

The 2009 film version of Robert E. Howard’s second most famous fantasy hero, Solomon K...

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Orson Scott Card and the New McCarthyism

Actually it’s not new at all, since the left has played this game for a long time. My 1...

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Good Old Thomas Malthus Just Won’t Die

It seems down through the centuries post “Enlightenment” that a very wide fault line h...

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Thoughts from a Century Ago: “The American Spirit”

Here we have an Englishman, Arthur C. Benson, a Cambridge college master, assessing Americ...

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Football Fatalities and the Progressive Era

Sometimes sports can reflect the temper of the times. A 16th-century eyewitness to footba...

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A Classic Noir Tale: “The Big Clock” by Kenneth Fearing

I recently read this novel first published in 1946.  It is a very well done thriller. ...

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Sixty Years On: Russell Kirk’s ‘The Conservative Mind’

(Editor’s note: To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the publication of Russell Kirk�...

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‘The Unrequited’ is a Mystery of Modern Manners

The taste of the cheeseburger lingered in my mouth. Not the ketchup or the onion or even ...

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Under Fire for Eucharist Burger, Restaurateur Expresses His Moral Philosophy

The Chicago restaurant that sells a hamburger adorned with an unconsecrated communion wa...

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New Eucharist Burger: ‘Do You Want Salvation with That?’

At the Kuma's Corner restaurant, the chef likes to invent new hamburgers named after roc...

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An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews by Yaakov Ariel.

Religion can make strange bedfellows—or has done so once at least .    Yaakov Ariel...