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BBC Filming Adaptation of Christie Classic to Air in U.S. Next Year

[from agathachristie.com] Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None is the best selling ...

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Actor Denzel Washington Urges Dillard University Graduates: ‘Put God First’

From ChristianNews.net: NEW ORLEANS, La. — Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington urged ...

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Coach Fired After Threat Against Pizza Shop

A high school coach in northern Indiana has been fired after tweeting that a local pizza...

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Friday Abstract: ‘Blurred Lines’ Fallout, ‘Drones’ on the Way, Treehouses of Horror

The "Blurred Lines" copyright infringement decision could put significant constraints on...

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Inconvenient ‘Sharknado’ Films Tell Important Truth

Writing in the American Spectator, Daniel Flynn argues (tongue in cheek) that the SyFY Net...

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Maintenance Alert

The web host for The American Culture is closing down, and we're in the process of transfe...

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Poem: An Untitled Contemplation of Life’s Continuation

The following poem, which we present with the permission of the author, is another in our ...

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A Nostalgic Look at the ’50s

By Mark W. Hendrickson New Year’s observances blend recollections of the past, celebr...

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Poem: “Lifting of the Fog”

The following poem, which we present with the permission of the author, is another in our ...

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Poem: “This Morning”

The following poem, which we present with the permission of the author, is one of a collec...

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Heartland Institute Responds to Publishing of False and Stolen Documents

[Yesterday, documents purporting to be confidential strategy memos from The Heartland Inst...

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Christmas Greeting, 2011

For unto us a child is born. . . . We at The American Culture wish you a merry Christma...

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Annals of Cultural Change: Deer Season a Half-Century Ago

By Paul Kengor This week hunters across America storm the woods loaded for deer. For yet ...

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Steve Jobs, American Dreamer

By Ben Domenech The career of Steve Jobs exemplifies the American dream. It is jarring...

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Technical Difficulties

As you will have noticed if you've visited in the past few days, The American Culture has ...

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London Burning: The Apotheosis of Statism

By now we’re all well-informed of the widespread rioting and looting in Britain. But th...

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The Polished Menace of Eric Ambler

By Shmuel Ben-Gad Spy stories are, at least sometimes, a secular equivalent of ghost st...

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Cars’ New Album: Good, but Falls Short of Band’s Former Glory

By Joe Lynch At first listen, the Cars’ first album of new material since 1987 seems ...

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Halter’s ‘Lord of Misrule’ Revives Classic Mystery Style

By J. Morris Review of The Lord of Misrule, by Paul Halter A man found murdered in a sea...

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Christians Need Not Apply?

By Warren S. Moore The institution at which I earned my Masters degree, the University of...

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The Best Damn Private Eye on Television

By Kevin Burton Smith No, CBS' The Good Wife is not a private-eye show. One of the 2009-...

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“Celebrity” by W. S. Moore, III

The Culture Alliance and the American Culture once again present original fiction by W. S...

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A Stoic’s Anthem

By Larry Kaufmann Shmuel Ben-Gad’s review of a book about an underappreciated stoic her...

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Local Talent, by W.S. Moore, III

The Culture Alliance and the American Culture present original fiction by W. S. Moore, III...

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Review: Thoughts of an Underappreciated Stoic

Review of Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings, translated by Cynthia King. Available for ...

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Review: Barton Creates Simple, Moving Album

By Warren Moore Review of Projector, by Steve Barton (Sleepless Records, 2010, available ...

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How Twigs Get Bent: Freddy the Pig

By Warren Moore When I was a kid in Nashville, I had free run of the stacks in the local ...

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Fincher Makes the Uninteresting Interesting in ‘The Social Network’

By Arthur Briggs Film director David Fincher seems intent on becoming the master of ma...

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First Fall Season TV Cancellations Hit

Fox's Lone Star and ABC's My Generation have been canceled by their respective networks. F...

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Heroes and Villains of School Reform Wars Skillfully Depicted in ‘Waiting for Superman’ Documentary

By Arthur Briggs Documentaries, by their nature, are directed. Much like in a fiction n...

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TV’s 2009-10 Primetime Emmys Announced

Here's everything you could possibly need to know about this year's Emmy Awards. (more&h...

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The Greatness of ‘Hey, Jude’

What's the greatest Beatles song  of all? Family scholars.org says it's "Hey Jude." ...

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Bradbury Praised

National Review celebrates author Ray Bradbury on his 90th birthday. Essay here.