movies
Classic Film Alert: The Strawberry Blonde

Turner Classic Movies is featuring actress Rita Hayworth this month, and there's a very g...

commerce
Grabbing the Green from the Greens

There's more than one sucker born every minute, and most of them born in the past few deca...

manners-and-morals
A Culture of Narcissists

Our politics are derived from our culture. A culture, after all, is a place where minds li...

television
Stunning Pro-Life Moment on TV Show “House”

Last night's episode of the Fox TV drama House presented another of those powerful ethical...

music
The Best Progressive Rock Albums of 2006-7

As promised, here are some of my choices for top progressive rock albums of the past year:...

music
Recent Worthy Music

Our friend Carl Olsen has an amusingly pointed and insightful piece on recent music, at hi...

movies
The Sexual Politics of “Blades of Glory”

Blades of Glory, the new comedy starring Will Farrell and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), i...

mysteries
The Value of Plot; plus: Guest Review of “Night of the Wolf”

A few weeks ago I eagerly purchased a copy of the new book Night of the Wolf, a collection...

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Dungy Supports Freedom Regarding Concept of Marriage

It ought to be perfectly normal for a person to state their support for the traditional id...

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Liberalism and Statism

Here's another installment in our continuing effort to clarify the misnamed political alig...

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What Think Ye of HBO’s “Rome”?

Currently on National Review Online, Gerald J. Russello points out that the alternative to...

prose-fiction
Orwell on Wodehouse

In a comment on my item on Wodehouse Playhouse, regular visitor Mike quotes George Orwell'...

television
Thoughts on Wodehouse Playhouse

In a comment on the humorous piece genrerously supplied by Mike (not Linda) below, regular...

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Reservations About Rudy

Our friend Hunter Baker has written a very insightful piece on current politics for the ex...

movies
“300” and “Ghost Rider”

Movies based on comic books, which are now called graphic novels, are so common as to be s...

mysteries
The Case of the Ectoplasmic Ecdysiast

A regular visitor to this site, who goes by the mysterious name of Mike (not Linda), wrote...

movies
Two Robin Hoods

The BBC's new series Robin Hood, showing on BBC America on Saturday nights at 9 EDT, is al...

mysteries
An Intellectual Intuitive TV Detective

NBC-TV premiered an interesting and innovative new detective series last night. Jeff Goldb...

manners-and-morals
Was Ellery Another Kind of Queen?

Short answer: no.A comment placed on my Tony Dungy item, below, suggests a worthy item for...

manners-and-morals
Homosexuals Pursue Dungy

Homosexual activists are attacking Super Bowl-winning Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony D...

music
Country Greats on Stage, CD

Country greats Ray Price, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson are touring in support of their...

mysteries
Banacek on DVD

Your voice has been heard! A couple of months ago we asked your support in getting the gre...

mysteries
More on Lord Darcy

Matthew Bowman of Christendom College posted a very interesting comment on my article on R...

books
Crichton’s “Next” Luddite Vision

Science writer Ronald Bailey has put together a very informative and insightful review of ...

movies
“300” Movie’s Historical Accuracy

USA Today has an excellent article in which the author interviews historian Paul Cartledge...

genres
A Month of Mysteries

Turner Classic Movies is featuring mystery films this month, on Tuesday and Wednesday nigh...

television
“Lost Tomb” Figure Derides Program’s Conclusions

John J. Miller has provided a very good article on the Discovery Channel's non-discovery o...

television
Scientists Denounce “Jesus Tomb” Documentary As Publicity Stunt

You may have heard about the forthcoming Discovery Channel documentary and accompanying bo...

manners-and-morals
Ideas Have Consequences: Self-Esteem, Achievement, and Narcissism

One of the most important trends of the past half-century was the self-esteem movement in ...

manners-and-morals
The Black Ku Klux Klan

The old joke used to be that a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged. The incre...

movies
Is “Amazing Grace” Irreligious?

In an article on William Wilberforce and Amazing Grace in the Opinion Journal, Charlotte A...

commerce
Why the Oscars Don’t Matter at All

The AP story recounting last night's Oscar ceremony goes right to the heart of why the Aca...

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Amazing “Amazing Grace”

An early scene in Amazing Grace establishes the film's themes in a way that is more subtle...