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Destruction of Hardaway Continues, Freedom of Speech Confirmed Dead

Former NBA player Tim Hardaway has apologized once again for his remarks last week in whic...

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Is “Homophobia” Natural?

Yesterday we noted that former NBA star Tim Hardaway could argue that his aversion to homo...

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Freedom of Speech for Some and Not for Others—the Hardaway Controversy

Retired NBA great Tim Hardaway was asked about homosexual former player John Amaechi yest...

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Sundance Controversy

A comment on our Academy Awards post below asked our opinion about the controversies regar...

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Academy Award Nominations Reflect Cultural Shibboleths

The nominations for this year's Motion Picture Academy Awards were announced today, and th...

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Fathers and TV Fiction

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

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Oprah’s Gift

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

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Why We Hate

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

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Bobby Knight and the Power of the Press

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

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The Ugly Side of the Omniculture

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

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Fattening Up Fashion Models

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

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A Good Quote on Masculinity

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

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The Bane of Conservative Cultural Criticism

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

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Culture and Nature: Animals Gone Wild

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

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Lowlanders Tiring of Smutty TV

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

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Guest Article: The New Avant-garde: Clean Comedy

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

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Jerry Garcia on the Omniculture

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

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Here Come the Big-Mouth Idiots

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

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The Deep Meaning of “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”

 Naturally it's tempting for critics to see Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for ...

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What Happens in Vegas . . .

Regarding the well-known Las Vegas promotional ads claiming that "What happens in Veg...

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Fannysmackin’ Our Vegas Mentality

The closing words of tonight's episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation express a truly g...

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Best New Show on Television

Most people aren't going to like to hear this, but I think that we are truly in a golden a...

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“Bravo” for the Omniculture

One of the biggest trends of the past couple of decades has been the increasing commercial...

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Liberty and Culture

I've just returned from a conference on great Americans' contributions to the nation's ong...

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“The Gridiron Gang,” the Philosophy of Determinism, and Freedom of the Will

The Gridiron Gang, mentioned immediately below, is a very good film, by the way, well wort...

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Bush “Snuff” Film Premieres in Toronto

James Pinkerton of Tech Central Station went all the way up to Toronto for the city's annu...

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A National Scandal: Brad Pitt, Beloved Sweetheart Angelina Tragically Prevented from Marrying!

I am regrettably rather late in mentioning the actor Brad Pitt's enlightening recent comme...

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The Need for Moral Courage (ABC’s Path to 9/11, Part 2)

Part 2 of the ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11, which aired last night, was, if anything, m...

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New Film to “Speak Language of Sex” to Mainstream Audiences

Another item for our ongoing Everything Happens in the Omniculture department:Shortbus, a ...

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Trial by Media

David Broder points out in his column today, "One Leak and a Flood of Silliness,"...

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A Magazine for the Modern Lady’s Hectic Schedule

Here's a publication no one should be without: Four Weeks is a new monthly magazine that i...

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Baby Poop Art

In our ongoing Everything Happens in the Omniculture department, E! Online reports that a ...

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Hong Kong Entertainers Protest Invasions of Privacy

A protest movement in Hong Kong (led by one of my favorite entertainment figures, Jackie C...