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Sometimes Hollywood Gets it Right

At The American Culture we believe that American culture is not one big cesspool of decay ...

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Charles C. W. Cooke: Are Atheism and Conservatism Compatible? It’s Not So Simple

A day or so after I'd written a piece about the implication of atheism for society in Dost...

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Marco Rubio Tears Communism Apart After Democrat Praises Cuba

Tom Harkin is a Democrat from Iowa, and like other Democrats is a person of the left who h...

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Dostoevsky, Prophet

I just finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Devils. It’s not for the faint of heart. I...

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Is ‘Black-on-Black Crime’ Really a Lie?

You may have heard of the growing epidemic of white people killing defenseless black peopl...

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Fallon Tonight Show Debut and the Culture of Cynicism

Having grown up with The Tonight Show in the Johnny Carson era (my folks watched it every ...

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New York Times Almost Swerves Into the Truth, Then Crashes

When you see an article in The New York Times about marriage you can pretty much guess wha...

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The Tebow Double Standard

By now everyone has had enough of the cultural phenomenon that is Tim Tebow. Well, maybe n...

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Where Did That Pinky Come From?

I am a fan of The Twilight Zone, as are most pop culture appreciating Americans. Every yea...

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Hollywood’s Anachronistic Tendencies

Hollywood is nothing if not formulaic, and part of the formula for a left-wing dominated H...

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Harvard Study Finds That Family Matters

Who knew? The modern left-liberal claims to care about the little guy, income inequality a...

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Group Think and the Grammys

I heard there was a music industry awards show recently, something called the Grammys (who...

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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of America

We all know about the totalitarian mindset of much of the gay rights movement. Live and le...

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Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, The Humanities Have Got to Go!

In case you hadn’t heard, UCLA recently told Western civilization to go to Hell. This of...

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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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’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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Louis C.K. Channels His Inner Woody Allen

By now a lot of people know that comedian Louis C.K., doesn’t like smartphones; I beca...

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Jonah Goldberg on the Profound Messages from “Breaking Bad”

I started watching Breaking Bad on Netflix some time ago, but watched very intermittently....

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Is America Really Exceptional?

American Exceptionalism has been in the news the last few weeks thanks to one Vladimir Vla...

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Are Barack and Michelle Obama Bad People?

Well, according to a managing editor at Slate, Allison Benedikt (hmmm, what does that last...

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God or “Unfathomable Luck”: You Decide

Atheists often prattle on about how there is no evidence for the existence of God, and tha...

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What Kind of Parents Produce a Miley Cyrus?

Well, since it’s the hot topic of the week I may as well hop on the Miley Cyrus bandwago...

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Children and Cultural Norms

The cover of the latest edition of Time magazine features two beautiful people, a man and ...