movies
“The Curse of the Golden Flower” and Two Ideas of Tragedy

The Curse of the Golden Flower, Zhang Yimou's latest film to be released in America, is a ...

television
American Muslims’ Protests of Fox TV Show “24” Are Misdirected

American Muslim groups have protested to Fox Television for the use of Muslims as terroris...

omniculture
A Fascinating New Sport . . .

Another item in our Everything Happens in the Omniculture series: professional pillow figh...

manners-and-morals
Fathers and TV Fiction

In recent days National Review Online has published a couple of very good articles on the ...

sports
Black Coaches and Equal Opportunity

As if the pressure on National Football League coaches weren't enough, especially during t...

television
The Only Kind of Conservatism These TV Writers Could Imagine As Not Entirely Repulsive

On the Acton Institute's Power Blog, Jordan Ballor analyzes a scene in the most recent epi...

commerce
Flash, Eccentricity Big at Golden Globe Awards

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave out its annual Golden Globe awards last night...

television
New Season of “24” Begins with a Bang

The Fox TV series has progressed from a cult hit to an award-winning cultural bellwether, ...

manners-and-morals
Oprah’s Gift

On her always-interesting blog, columnist Ilana Mercer has composed a fine and sympathetic...

movies
Realism and Bible Films

Surface realism is a perfectly nice thing for a movie to have, but it's a mistake to eleva...

uncategorized
NC Bar Charges Nifong with Ethics Violations

The North Carolina Bar has filed charges against Durham District Attorney Thomas Nifong. T...

manners-and-morals
Why We Hate

Peter Wood, the brilliant anthropologist and author of the new book A Bee in the Mouth: An...

uncategorized
Nifong Drops Rape Charges Against Falsely Accused Duke Students

As you may have heard in the news, District Attorney Michael Nifong has dropped the rape c...

movies
A Night Among Billboards

 A clearly well-intentioned movie is rather more of a rarity in Hollywood these days ...

commerce
A Tribute to John Dickson Carr

This is the last day in which I can decently mark the centennial of the birth of the truly...

movies
Rocky Balboa, Christian Warrior

Your correspondent has been very busy with other work during the past week and has neglect...

manners-and-morals
Bobby Knight and the Power of the Press

Tomorrow night Texas Tech basketball coach Bobby Knight goes out to break Dean Smith's rec...

uncategorized
A Wish for the Day

May you have a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year!For some inte...

sports
Sowell on NC False Prosecution Scandal

As you will recall, I've been writing about the Duke false prosecution scandal since the b...

manners-and-morals
The Ugly Side of the Omniculture

Candace de Russy has provided a nicely informative article about the uglier side of the Om...

commerce
Fattening Up Fashion Models

Here's an interesting item in our ongoing series of observations that everything happens i...

music
Noddy vs. Roy on Christmas: The BIG Question

Caitlin Moran of the Times of London asks several important questions about Christmas in t...

manners-and-morals
A Good Quote on Masculinity

The estimable Sam Smith of the Chicago Tribune quotes former NBA Utah Jazz coach Frank Lay...

movies
A Christmas Film to Remember

 Tonight at 8 p.m. EST, Turner Classic Movies is showing an excellent Christmas film,...

movies
The Brilliance of “Going My Way”

TV stations tend to show the great 1944 film Going My Way, directed by Leo McCarey and sta...

uncategorized
A Brutal Christmas Album

If you've read my article on Christmas music below, you probably noticed that the Omnicult...

music
The Sounds of Christmas

Advent is my favorite time of year, for all the conventional reasons, and Christmas music ...

uncategorized
The Inestimable Larry Miller

Larry Miller is one of the funniest comedians around. Rather like a younger Bob Newhart bu...

comic-books-graphic-novels
Conan the Influential Barbarian

John J. Miller of National Review has put together a nice overview of Robert E. Howard's &...

commerce
Macy’s Name Change Backfires

Sometimes it's important to respect traditions and follow conventional morality even when ...

sports
Animal Rights Activists Lose One

The National Basketball Association has announced that the league will stop using the micr...

commerce
Apocalypto Opens Strong

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, reviewed earlier on this site, opened strong this weekend, leadin...

music
Do You Listen to Yes?

Cadillac has a new commercial in which a group of young men in a Caddy discuss the great p...