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BBC America Crime Drama ‘Broadchurch’ Disappoints as Genre Effort, but Has Compensations

The new (to U.S.. viewers) British crime series Broadchurch premieres tonight on BBC Ameri...

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Jeff Shelby’s ‘Thread’ Books Are Well Spun

One of the delights of owning a Kindle is that often, when you’ve finished a book in a...

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Liberalism vs. Socialism

Winston Churchill, much like today's so-called "conservatives," talked one way but walked ...

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‘Hard Case Crime’ Novels Perhaps Too Authentic Hard-Boiled

Hard Case Crime is an intriguing specialized imprint. Their publishing strategy, which I...

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Book Review: ‘Faith on Earth?’

Faith on Earth? By Lou Poumakis. 2013 - Trade paperback - 152 pages - ISBN 978-0-9831957-8...

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The Postmodern Liberal Mind and Obsession with Race

Howard Fineman is a quintessential “mainstream” journalist, moderately liberal, reason...

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A Very Good Year

Ann Althouse has been blogging about her deceased father's record collection, which is h...

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Life Imitating Art

Did you ever see the techno-thriller Stealth (2005)? Don't feel slighted if you didn't....

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“Socialism and Its Menace”, Said the President

The President calling socialism a "menace"? Have we fallen into a time warp? In a manner ...

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The Zimmerman Trial and the Postmodern Liberal Mind

It’s been hard to escape the post-mortem on the trial of George Zimmerman, who was found...

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Koontz’ ‘Deeply Odd’ is Deeply Satisfying

In such a short time, Mrs. Fischer and I had achieved a degree of friendship that a...

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Adjectival Jihad—With a Side Trip to Adverbial Adversity

Lately there has been a move to abolish—or at least severely curtail—use of the adverb...

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TNT’s ‘Major Crimes’ Episode Tackles Gender Issues Without Moralizing

Last night's episode of the TNT police procedural drama Major Crimes used the subject o...

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Abortion and Liberal Heroism

Modern liberals can be funny animals. Here we are over 30 years post Roe v. Wade, with a g...

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Some Things Never Change — Christ and Mohammed

THEN . . . An anomalous instance — for the time period (1897) — of Islamic butchery p...

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Where Were You in ’32?

It's instructive to see what preoccupied our predecessors. Some of these names and issues ...

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The Differences Between Humor and Wit

Well over a century ago, one of the editors of The Atlantic Monthly (probably Bliss Perry)...

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‘FrackNation’ on AXS-TV Tonight

A message from acclaimed documentary filmmakers Phelim and Ann McAleer: Last night HBO pre...

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Fox Is Top News Source: Gallup Poll

The latest poll from Gallup examines where Americans get their news. Some takeaways:  F...

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The Attack

The Attack is a largely quite effective film about a fictional suicide bombing of an Isr...

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Prime Time Graphic Sex: Smoking Not Allowed

I read an excellent book by Mary Eberstadt (she doesn’t write any other kind) some month...

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U.S. Box Office: ‘White House Down’ Down, ‘Heat’ Up

The big-budget film White House Down had a poorer than expected opening weekend despite th...

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The Emperor’s Tomb by Joseph Roth (translated by Michael Hofmann)

This, the last novel of Austrian Jewish writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939), is quite thought...

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Multiverse or Not: Science Increasingly Reveals a Universe Exquisitely Designed for Life

For centuries secularists have declared that not only is God dead, but in due course we wi...

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‘Hollywood Stories’ From the Right

I’m fascinated by old Hollywood. Even modern Hollywood interests me mildly, but the si...

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In the Battle to Redefine Marriage Could Paula Deen be the Future?

Given today’s historic Supreme Court decisions regarding the redefinition of marriage, a...

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Ordinary Detectives: TNT’s ‘King and Maxwell’

After viewers got a look at TNT"s new crime drama series, King and Maxwell (Mondays at 10...

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PBS’s ‘Lewis’ Explores Deeper Mysteries Beyond Who Done It

The PBS series Masterpiece Mystery returns with another year of relatively thoughtful ge...

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BYU Program Prepares Mormons for Hollywood Career and Cultural Influence

Mormons have figured out one way to really penetrate and engage the culture from their dec...

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‘Grave Passage’ Passes the Time Very Nicely

When you follow free and discount e-book blogs, you learn to have low expectations. Gene...

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Tim Tebow to Sign with Patriots

The team led by the NFL's smartest head coach, the New England Patriots, has decided to ta...

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TNT’s ‘Major Crimes’ Returns for Second Season

The TNT drama series Major Crimes returns tonight for the start of a second season (9:00 E...

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Divorce and Government Tyranny

We all know that marriage in America has been having a tough go of it in recent decades. T...