movies
An Unconventional Christmas Movie

 If you're interested in seeing an unusual film set at Christmas, and a good one, you...

movies
Gibson’s Apocalypto

Upon hearing that Mel Gibson was filming a story set at the end of the Mayan empire and p...

manners-and-morals
The Bane of Conservative Cultural Criticism

The Achilles heel of most conservative cultural critics is their tendency to characterize ...

manners-and-morals
Culture and Nature: Animals Gone Wild

Our friend and fellow classical liberal Ilana Mercer has a very interesting and well-argue...

music
A Christmas Treat from Roy Wood

Here's a treat for you—a video featuring Roy Wood. Wood is one of the great — ...

television
The Limits of Utilitarianism—A BBC Drama Series

The BBC TV program 11th Hour, currently being shown in the United States on Monday nights ...

commerce
Lowlanders Tiring of Smutty TV

Who would have thought that the merry Dutch, world pioneers of mass-marketed pornography, ...

commerce
What’s Good About Ultimate Fighting

 I know a couple of fellows, perfectly reputable sorts, who follow "ultimate fig...

genres
Fox’s 24 to Go Even Darker

I've mentioned on several occasions the turn toward "darker" programming on netw...

mysteries
Closer Returns Tonight

The TV crime drama The Closer returns tonight with a two-hour movie to kick off its third ...

manners-and-morals
Guest Article: The New Avant-garde: Clean Comedy

Our friend Mike D'Virgilio has posted an interesting article on a cultural trend toward &q...

mysteries
Inspector Mom—Mysteriously Good

 Confession time: I make a habit of not watching the Lifetime TV network, which appea...

movies
Mr. Capra Goes to Hollywood

Turner Classic Movies is showing a five-movie tribute to director Frank Capra tomorrow beg...

manners-and-morals
Jerry Garcia on the Omniculture

Our Reform Club colleague Tom Van Dyke sent us this nifty quote from the late Jerry Garcia...

manners-and-morals
Here Come the Big-Mouth Idiots

There is something rather interesting and revealing in all the recent controversies about ...

books
Can We Judge Literature?

I stirred up some concerns among PKD fans with my Philip K. Dick article, which was cross-...

books
Philip K. Dick Canonized

It's official: Philip K. Dick is a great writer, according to the Library of America. As t...

television
Soap Opera to Feature “Transgendering” Character

This Thursday, the ABC TV daytime serial drama All My Children will introduce a character ...

television
Two More Depressing TV Shows Sink

Two more TV shows representing this season's trend towared "darker," more depres...

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Thanksgiving Day

May you have a blessed Thanksgiving Day, and please take time to consider the great blessi...

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Liberals and Statists

Here are some thoughts in our continuing discussion of political nomenclature, in which we...

genres
Deja Vu and Time Travel Fiction

 Two time travel movies are premiering today, and a none of those astounding mysterie...

commerce
Why Radio Stinks

If you find current-day FM radio to be extremely boring, as I do, you can credit Clear Cha...

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“Prime Suspect” Ends

The PBS/BBC police procedural series Prime Suspect premiered in 1991 and began the still-c...

movies
Casino Royale

Ian Fleming's James Bond is a much tougher egg than most of the Bond movies have portrayed...

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Milton Friedman

I have just heard that the economist Milton Friedman died this morning at the age of 94. D...

mysteries
Religion in “Bones”

Another in our ongoing chronicle of fictional TV programs' treatment of religion . . .In l...

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Classical Liberalism, Abortion, Gay Marriage

Abortion and homosexual marriage appear on the surface to be very difficult areas for clas...

television
Religion in “Prison Break”

In the latest of our continuing series of observations regarding TV's treatment of religio...

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More on Classical Liberalism

In my article yesterday in National Review Online, and in subsequent discussions here, I h...

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Defining Classical Liberalism

In our comments section, Jim Faas asks for some more detail about what classical liberalis...

mysteries
Underfunded—Review

As mentioned earlier on these illustrious pages, the USA Network recently premiered the pi...

music
Neil Young’s “Living with War”

To get a feel for the new political atmosphere in the wake of the Democrats' takeover of b...