mysteries
Well Worth Watching: Lewis and Hathaway Return to PBS ‘Masterpiece Mystery’

U.S. fans of the UK TV mystery series Inspector Lewis take heart and heed: Oxford poli...

music
Campbell Documentary Celebrates Country Artist

As a country musician, Glen Campbell wasn't widely known, among the general audience, for...

religion
The Devil in His Own Words

The Devil has often been written about and Marcus Kyd of the Taffety Punk Theatre Compan...

journalism
Comedian-Turned-Pundit Branded as Poseur

I enjoyed Rod Liddle's recent article in the UK Spectator (a terrific magazine) for its...

commerce
HBO, Showtime Comments Portend Ominous Scenario for Cable/Satellite Companies

As TV viewers increasingly move to online programming sources such as Netflix, Hulu, and...

religion
How to Shrink Your Church and Your Political Party

I saw this title, “How to Shrink Your Church in One Easy Step,” recently, and being a...

journalism
FOX News Increases Viewership, Has Third-Highest Primetime Cable Audience in Choice Demo

Media analysts correctly claim that the TV news media have been losing audience in recent...

people
Joan Rivers: A Little Heroine

Comedienne Joan Rivers died yesterday at the age of 81, after a medical procedure to repai...

uncategorized
The Rise of the Conservative Counterculture—and How You Can Participate

You say you want a revolution? In the heady days of the 1960s and early '70s, the counterc...

manners-and-morals
Crowding Out Common Courtesy

In his latest Boston Globe column, Jeff Jacoby argues that a misplaced emphasis on indiv...

culture101
Grover Norquist Goes to Burning Man

Suppose you're a conservative activist stranded in the middle of the desert, surrounded by...

religion
Metaphysical Scientists and ‘Particle Fever’

Science, properly understood, answers empirical questions, not philosophical or metaphysic...

movies
Battle of Houdinis Begins Tonight: History Channel vs. Classic-Era Hollywood

History Channel's four-hour miniseries Houdini, about the celebrated American stage magic...

art-and-architecture
Art, Architecture, and the Sacred

Writing at NewGeography.com, Dallas architect Julien Meyrat explains why modern architect...

literature-2
Melville Davisson Post’s Mysteries: Relief for Those Weary of Excessive Darkness

Many readers find modern genre fiction to be excessively "dark" and depressive, and for go...

economicspolicy
Stossel: End the EPA

Award-winning journalist John Stossel is devoting his program tonight on the Fox Business ...

manners-and-morals
Yes Liberals, Families Do Matter

It seems like there isn’t a weekend in Chicago this summer where we don’t hear about h...

books
An Above-Average Superhero Story

Duncan MacMaster is the proprietor of The Furious D Show, one of the most interesting mo...

books
Koontz’s Latest: Lyrical, Tragic, and Brilliant

After you have suffered great losses and known much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to l...

culture101
Can the Romantic Drama Be Rescued?

A popular film genre that has seldom received much respectful attention from critics and s...

economicspolicy
The Origin of Specious Thinking: Public Schools

Writing in Canon and Culture, Prof. Colin Garbarino of Houston Baptist University poses a...

television
Marathon Celebrates Quarter-Century of ‘The Simpsons’

Fire up your DVR, and be prepared to make some tough choices: the FXX Network begins its S...

economicspolicy
Don’t Fear the Data-Reaper?

Two articles today show how the Internet economy tends to be like the overall economy but ...

theater
Pol Pot & Associates, LLP

The stage setting for this latest play by Kathleen Akerley (who also directs it) is the...

economicspolicy
Bogie, Bacall, and Communism

Paul Kengor, one of the top contemporary experts on the infiltration of the United State...

uncategorized
Why We Love Woody Allen

Well, I can tell you why Christians love Woody Allen, being as I am one and I know this fo...

books
Pirog’s Thomas Prescott Novels: Good, and Getting Better

Nick Pirog’s Thomas Prescott novels are worth reading just to watch a writer learning hi...

movies
Despite Flaws, D’Souza Doc Is Interesting and Important

Writing in the American Spectator, James Bowman finds some things to like about Dinesh ...

movies
The Tragic Implications of Comedian Robin Williams’s Suicide

The death by suicide of actor-comedian Robin Williams will undoubtedly set loose a torr...

mysteries
“Forget It, Morse; It’s Oxfordshire.”−’Endeavour’: Series Two, on PBS

Two years ago I quite favorably reviewed the pilot film for Endeavour, the 1960s-set pre...

mysteries
Court Rebukes Doyle Heirs for Greed and Extortion

In a long-overdue victory for common sense and freedom of expression, the U.S. Court of ...

movies
Costner’s Self-Financed ‘Black and White’ Tackles Controversial Issues

Kevin Costner's new film, Black and White, appears destined to create much controversy, ...

uncategorized
Homosexuals in America and the Power of Pop Culture

Imagine ex-Tonight Show host Jay Leno going out on the street as he did many times, and in...