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‘Bringing It All Back Home’ After a Half-Century

There’s no end to the debate over the greatest rock album, but the question of the mos...

movies
Review: ’50 Shades of Grey’ Is an Unconventional Conventional Romance

By now you’re surely aware of the Fifty Shades of Grey (50SOG) phenomenon and basic st...

commerce
‘Choice Is a Powerful Thing’: Uber Super Bowl Promotion Reflects Value of Economic Liberty

Choice is a powerful thing. That was the subject of an e-mail I received from an unlikel...

economicspolicy
University Moves to Force Racial Grade Equality Regardless of Students’ Performance

“Many American colleges and universities are in the thrall of 'diversity,' but none mo...

worldviews
Counterpoint: The Case Against ‘Antique Conservatism’

In a characteristically thoughtful and well-written piece in yesterday’s The American ...

manners-and-morals
Ferguson, Bosnia, and Other Tragic Myths

When the Soviet Empire fell apart, between 1989 and 1991, some liberated nations had a dif...

economicspolicy
Think Tanks’ Donor Identities Don’t Matter, but Policy Positions Do

The R Street Institute is a relatively recent arrival in the D.C. think tank world. It adv...

music
Jason Isbell Wins Big at Americana Music Awards

Jason Isbell was the big winner at this year's Americana Music Association Awards.  In ad...

culture101
Grover Norquist Goes to Burning Man

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

culture101
Ten Best TV Comedies Set in NYC

The NY Post recently published a list of the 10 greatest TV comedies set in New York City....

culture-and-economics
Real Genius

An interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal argues that America’s educationa...

television
700 Sundays

Anyone looking for funny and poignant television should not miss Billy Crystal's 700 Sunda...

education
Advanced Academic Intolerance

Several university commencement speakers have been cancelled this year because students co...

culture101
Music of Tennessee: An American Cultural Treasure

Every year, the Oxford American literary magazine dedicates an issue to exploring the mu...

mysteries
‘Mentalist’ Presents Tea Party Separatist Group in Positive Light

Sunday night's episode of the CBS-TV crime drama The Mentalist had a couple of interesti...

culture-and-economics
Things Have Changed

Poor Pete Seeger.  Not even dead a week, and he’s already rolling over in his grave. ...

fiction1
Nudity, Naturalism, and ‘Girls’

Like 887,000 Americans, I have now seen Lena Dunham naked. Ms. Dunham, as I’m sure yo...

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Albert Murray RIP

Albert Murray, one of the giants of American culture, died last weekend.  He was 97 years...

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Breaking Bad’s Final Season Off to a Great Start

Breaking Bad’s final season is off with a bang, with two of the strongest episodes in th...

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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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Shocking Michelle Shocked?

On March 17th, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked took the stage in San Francisco for a co...

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Bobbie Smith, RIP

Bobbie Smith, who had one of the smoothest voices in pop music, died last weekend at age 7...

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Culture, Technology and the Unconstrained Vision: Part 4

Technology and the Conflict of Visions Consider the populations of America’s two high-t...

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Culture, Technology, and the Unconstrained Vision: Part 3

Technological and Cultural Change This leads me to another point, made in another newslet...

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Culture, Technology and the Unconstrained Vision: Part 2

Virtual Reality vs. The Oregon Trail So where did this entitlement mentality come from? ...

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Culture, Technology, and the Unconstrained Vision: Part 1

This will be the first of four, inter-related posts examining the relationship between cu...

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A Day that Exceeds Nigel Tufnel’s Dreams

As I'm sure you know, today is 12/12/12. This means that 11/11/11 - or Nigel Tufnel day -...

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Winterlight

We all know that spring, and not winter, is the time that a young man's fancy turns to lov...

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Hollywood Comedy, Then and Now

Saturday night I watched Wisconsin beat up on Nebraska and earn a third straight trip to t...

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Who Does Barack Obama Like?

An article in the current New Yorker reports that Barack Obama just doesn’t like many pe...

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Review: ‘Obama 2016’ a Fact-Filled Look at President’s Worldview

One of the surprise movie hits of the summer is Obama 2016, a documentary co-written and d...

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Another View: Inadvertent Truths in ‘The Wire’

I’m one of those who believe The Wire is in the running for best TV series ever, and I h...

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Blue Highways Revisited

Even with record high gasoline prices and sweltering temperatures, millions of Americans w...