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‘Elementary’ Holmes Can’t Match the Original—But Is That Really a Problem?

Lars Walker makes an interesting point in his response to my comment on his review of the ...

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Government and Conscience: What Are the Limits of Liberty?

A comment on Mike D'Virgilio's essay "The Illiberalism of Modern Liberalism" brings up som...

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TNT’s ‘Major Crimes’ Finishes Successful First Season

Tonight brings the season-ending episode of Major Crimes, TNT's replacement for The Clo...

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Virginia Police Put U.S. Marine Veteran in Mental Institution for Political Facebook Posts

Remember this name: Brandon Raub. Raub, a twenty-six-year-old former U.S. Marine, was a...

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‘The Case for Cinematic Violence’

American Culture editor S. T. Karnick makes "The Case for Cinematic Violence" at PJMedia...

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Dowd Humble-Brags Obama, Confirms MSM Narrative of Obama Presidency

Maureen Dowd is the quintessential New York Times writer, and thus a perfect example of ...

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Honig Gets It Half-Right

Speaking at his organization's 10th Annual Access to Capital and Telecommunications Polic...

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A Century of Milton Friedman

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton F...

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USA Network’s ‘Burn Notice,’ ‘Suits’ Provide Insightful Entertainment

It's Thursday, and that means USA Network's two best currently running series have new e...

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‘Dark Knight Rises’ Resolves Trilogy in Admirable Form

Despite some feelings of strangeness caused by the appalling mass shooting at a screening ...

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President’s Surprising Tax Logic

Like many of his other public pronouncements, President Obama's recent comment about se...

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TNT’s ‘Perception’ Off to Weak Start

TNT's latest new series, Perception, premiered last Monday, in the valuable time slot af...

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‘Closer’ Closeout Begins

TNT's popular police drama The Closer begins its final six episodes tonight at 9 EDT. T...

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Brown, Creek to Return to TV

There's good news and mixed news regarding British TV mysteries. Both feature detectives w...

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Big Audiences for Targeted Films

Last weekend brought huge audiences into the nation's movie theaters to watch a talking te...

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Confiscatory Democracy Confirmed Again in Court’s Obamacare Decision

Today's U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act vividly highlights a basic ...

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Tull’s ‘Thick As a Brick’ Sequel a Worthy Follow-up to Rock Classic

Some forty years after the release of the best-selling and highly influential rock music a...

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Who’s Responsible for Bad TV?

Writing in The American Spectator, author and cultural critic Daniel Flynn explains that c...

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A&E Solidifies Crime Drama Slate with ‘Longmire’

It's good to see the A&E cable network getting back into the TV drama business. Justly...

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‘House’ Conclusion Satisfies Both Emotions and Intellect

For me the most interesting thing about the Fox TV series House, M.D., the final episode...

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‘Whitechapel’ Season Three Starts Out Impossibly Well

The British crime drama series Whitechapel resumes tonight at 10 EDT on BBC America wi...

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Fox’s ‘Alcatraz’ Leaves Most Interesting Mystery Unexplored

TV networks and the producers who supply their programming strive for originality more t...

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Judd’s ‘Missing’ Just Misses

Sometimes a TV show does just about everything right, and yet . . . one still doesn't feel...

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Unexpected ‘Devil Inside’ Success Reflects Rising Interest in Demonic

For many decades, including most of the twentieth century, the subjects of demonic possess...

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Dark but Balanced History in AMC’s Hell on Wheels

The AMC-TV drama series Hell on Wheels (Sundays, 10 p.m. EST) takes a rather cynical vie...

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The Trouble with Traditionalism

If you want to understand an important trend in political thinking, I recommend the latest...

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Penn State Scandal Exposes Unseemly Media Motives

The Penn State University football scandal has been ugly in a variety of ways, but not ...

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Ongoing Movie Box Office Decline Suggests Recently Popular Genres Are Fading

The U.S. cinema box office continues its long decline. New release Tower Heist finished be...

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Historian Ferguson Calls for U.S. ‘Reboot’

In an interesting analytical essay in Newsweek based on the ideas in his book Civilizati...

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Language Barrier Falls As Profanity in Book Titles Rises

If the United States had a "swear jar," it would be full to bursting right now. Indicatin...

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Biggest Hollywood Moneymaker Revealed

Who's the highest-grossing movie actor of all time? It's a bit of a surprise: Samuel L. J...

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‘Paranormal Activity 3’ Surpasses Expectations, ‘English’ Shunned

U.S. moviegoers avoided theaters over the weekend, except those showing new release Para...

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Apple’s Jobs Soured on Obama

The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs evidently supported Barack Obama's rise to the presidency ...