movies
David Mamet Swings to the Right

TAC correspondent Michael D'Virgilio analyzes the cultural implications of the political j...

books
The Light in “Dark” Fiction

"Dark" fiction can have highly positive values behind it, writes S. T. Karnick. ...

manners-and-morals
What Kind of Culture Should We Want?

Most contemporary commentators on both left and right believe that freedom of expression a...

genres
‘Dexter’ Comes to CBS

This Sunday night at 10 p.m EST, CBS attempts to bolster its writers-strike-depleted prime...

omniculture
Multiculturalism Gone Mad: “Christian Ramadan”

For those who have yet to understand that multiculturalism is nothing of the sort and is m...

books
Norman Mailer and the Hipster Cataclysm

Novelist-journalist Norman Mailer has died at age 84, according to his literary executor. ...

books
The Oppressive Realities of the Sexual Revolution

One of the most important presumably unintended consequences of the Sexual Revolution of t...

genres
Master Storyteller

Critic John J. Miller has published a very informative interview with Robert E. Howard sch...

books
Why Johnny Doesn’t Read

Men read far fewer books than women today. That's a documented fact, and the gap is becomi...

commerce
ABC Is “Gayest” TV Network—Study

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has declared that the U.S. televis...

manners-and-morals
Penn and Willis, a Study in Contrasts

Two stories in the news vividly encapsulate the astonishing gulf between left and right to...

commerce
TV Tackles the Sensate Culture

Summer has become the main season for cable TV networks to premiere new series and special...

commerce
“Hot Ghetto Mess” TV Program Under Fire

At least two companies have pulled their ads from the upcoming July 25 premiere of the Bla...

omniculture
The Great Disruption—Is There Any Hope of Deliverance?

In an article ostensibly considering the literary legacy of science-fiction writer Robert ...

commerce
Movies for Good Girls

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

manners-and-morals
Anti-Male, Anti-Marriage “Humor”

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

commerce
Classic Movie Channel Goes Gay

Former National Review editor and journalist extroardinaire John O'Sullivan has frequently...

manners-and-morals
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...

commerce
Hollywood to Censor Smoking

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

omniculture
Chicagoans March to Support Crime, Criminals

A society without values will accept anything. Enthusiastically.One result of such a lack ...

commerce
FCC Urges Congress to Ignore Bill of Rights—So What’s New?

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads as follows:Congress shall make no law r...

manners-and-morals
“A” Student Arrested for Essay

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

comic-books-graphic-novels
Batman Begins . . . Again

[I ran across a DVD of the movie Batman Begins recently and was reminded of how representa...

manners-and-morals
Why Madmen Kill

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

manners-and-morals
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 ...

manners-and-morals
Hardaway Controversy: Michael Medved Joins the Fray

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

manners-and-morals
Broussard on Homosexuality and Tolerance

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

manners-and-morals
Sundance Controversy

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

omniculture
A Fascinating New Sport . . .

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

manners-and-morals
Why We Hate

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

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...

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 &...

manners-and-morals
The Bane of Conservative Cultural Criticism

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