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A Great Father

For those who have not yet seen it, here's my contribution to today's National Review Onli...

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Movies for Good Girls

A new wave of movies aimed at young girls is coming, starting this Friday with the theatri...

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Anti-Male, Anti-Marriage “Humor”

Jenny Morse is an excellent libertarian writer and thinker, with a Ph.D. in economics, who...

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ABC Enforces Homosexual Protection Rule

For calling a fellow actor a "fag" during an argument with still another actor, ...

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The Theocracy Slur

One of the most powerful weapons of the left today has quietly taken hold and moved into t...

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A Strong Defense of Jerry Falwell—And an Appreciation of Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter's thoughts on the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, from her most recent column, are im...

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Leftists Spew Hatred Toward Dead Man—A Call for Action

The explosion of hatred toward the late Rev. Jerry Falwell on the left is truly appalling....

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Why Movie Characters Smoke So Much

In a comment on our entry on Hollywood censorship of smoking, Lars Walker points out that ...

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Hollywood to Censor Smoking

 The Motion Picture Assoociation of America has announced that portrayals of smoking ...

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F. A. Hayek and the Essentials of Classical Liberalism

My essay on the Austrian economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek in the April 20 print e...

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Movie Moms

In honor of Mother's Day, here is my contribution to the National Review Online symposium ...

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Should MLB Teams Ban Alcohol or Alcoholics?

Our column on "The Culture of Personal Irresponsibility" received some unexpecte...

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The Culture of Personal Irresponsibility

A column by Chicago Sun-Times sportswriter Rick Telander this past weekend, "La Russa...

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Giuliani and Abortion: Update

In a comment on my post earlier today about Rudy Giuliani's evolving and complicated posit...

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Rudy G. Offers Half an Abortion Loaf . . . Will It Be Enough?

In contrast to the other worthies at last night's Simi Valley, California, debate among ca...

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“A” Student Arrested for Essay

A student in a Chicago suburb has been arrested for writing an essay that allegedly fright...

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Rosie Gone—for Now

ABC Television has announced that Rosie O'Donnell, controversial host of the daytime show ...

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Fred Thompson on the Two Minds of Modernity

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson aptly characterized the two minds of modernity: liberalism ...

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Why Madmen Kill

The mass shooting at Virginia Tech University will certainly bring a long and laborious di...

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Rutgers Team Accepts Imus’s Apology—Now That He’s Been Canned

The Rutgers University ladies' basketball team has accepted Don Imus's apology, AP reports...

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Imus Radio Show Canceled

As you've heard, Don Imus's radio show has now been canceled. And so this sorry saga ocmes...

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The Wisdom of Snoop Dogg

Syndicated columnist Mona Charen unearthed a brilliant gem of insight from the great philo...

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The Double Standard Regarding Offensiveness

As stated here two days ago (see below), radio host Don Imus's characterization of the Rut...

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An Opportunity to Show Model Behavior

It has been announced that the Rutgers University ladies' basketball team will appear on t...

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The Odious Offense of Don Imus

A commenter asked for our thoughts on the Don Imus affair, and we shall be happy to oblige...

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A Culture of Narcissists

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

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Was Ellery Another Kind of Queen?

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

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Homosexuals Pursue Dungy

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

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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 ...

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The Black Ku Klux Klan

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

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Hardaway Controversy: Michael Medved Joins the Fray

As Carl Olsen noted in our comments section, writer and radio host Michael Medved has weig...

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Broussard on Homosexuality and Tolerance

As we noted yesterday, in the post immediately below, most of the intellectual-political-c...

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Eerie Silence on the Right Regarding Hardaway Controversy

I've done a quick check of the major intellectual magazines on the right—such as Nat...