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Homosexuals in America and the Power of Pop Culture

Imagine ex-Tonight Show host Jay Leno going out on the street as he did many times, and in...

journalism
BBC ‘Digging Its Own Grave’ By Banning Global Warming Skeptics

The other day, a nonprofit called The Institute of Art and Ideas interviewed Benny Peiser...

music
The Empty Hearts: Power Pop for Summer Fun

Are you looking for some late-summer, top-down, hard-driving power pop? If so, do yourse...

movies
Magic in the Moonlight

Magic in the Moonlight, Woody Allen's latest flick, reprises some of his perennial theme...

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What Hath God to Do With Economics? Nothing, Says New York Times

Dave Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, turned the political world up...

manners-and-morals
Updated: Oldman Denounces Hollywood Political Correctness, Hypocrisy

The acclaimed actor and self-described libertarian Gary Oldman comes out with guns blazi...

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Do Something Truly Counter Cultural: Write a Letter!

Have you ever written a letter? Do you even know what that is? Answers to these questions ...

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The Il-Liberal Power Elite

As we all know and see consistently in public discourse, the liberals/progressives of our ...

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Universities to Christian Groups: You Are Not Welcome Here

It’s hard not to think, as an evangelical Christian, that America’s cultural elites wo...

movies
Cold in July

  It is 1989 in Texas and Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall), a small business owner, ...

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Actor Morgan Freeman: Economic Inequality Has Nothing to Do with Race

"Why would race have anything to do with it?" Freeman asks. "Stick your mind to what you w...

music
Dave Clark Five, Beatles, Other ’60s Pop Music Performers on TV Tonight

The excellent 1960s pop group the Dave Clark Five will be featured tonight on Turner Cla...

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“Madame Tussaud”: The French Revolution is Depressing

I’ve always been fascinated by the French Revolution, probably because I’ve always see...

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‘Moms’ Night Out’ Reveals Movie Critics’ Anti-Religious Bias

As you likely well know, 2014 has been the year of films by and for Christians. Some add D...

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Hillsdale College: Reflections on a Daughter’s Graduation

I graduated from Arizona State University in 1982. Either shortly after or shortly before ...

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Illinois: Democrats Have Ruined a Perfectly Good State-Politics and Policy Make a Difference

I have the unfortunate privilege of living in one of the most corrupt, dysfunctional state...

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Tolerance, Marriage and the Nature of Human Sexuality

For some mysterious reason in the early part of the 21st Century what one thinks about mar...

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California Should Listen to Arthur Laffer; it Won’t

On my daily trek taking my son to school this morning, I heard Arthur Laffer interviewed a...

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Cancelled: Charles Murray. Christian University Leftist Group Think

I saw this morning that a talk by Charles Murray scheduled at Azusa Pacific University was...

movies
Jim Jarmusch’s Vampire Flick

I am afraid I am pretty closed-minded when it comes to movie vampires.  For me, film...

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It Happened Here, Too

For anyone unfortunate enough to have wasted four years of their life receiving a politica...

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American Exceptionalism Revisited

For a number of years now I’ve been getting a tremendous periodical from Houston Baptist...

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A Call to Redeem the Arts

By Kevin Wieter So you want to intertwine faith and content in the arts.  Well kudos to y...

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Paul Ryan, Racist: It’s the Culture, Stupid

Since I’m not a sitting US Congressman, or a former vice presidential candidate, I can s...

movies
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Funny but a Bit Pretentious

  In the closing credits  of this,Wes Anderson's latest flick, it says it was ins...

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What If America Never Existed

As we know progressives and all their offspring are not particularly fond of America or it...

movies
Ramis, ‘Stripes’, and Big Government

Clever people have long claimed that analyzing comedy kills people’s enjoyment of it. I ...

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Sometimes Hollywood Gets it Right

At The American Culture we believe that American culture is not one big cesspool of decay ...

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Charles C. W. Cooke: Are Atheism and Conservatism Compatible? It’s Not So Simple

A day or so after I'd written a piece about the implication of atheism for society in Dost...

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Marco Rubio Tears Communism Apart After Democrat Praises Cuba

Tom Harkin is a Democrat from Iowa, and like other Democrats is a person of the left who h...

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Dostoevsky, Prophet

I just finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Devils. It’s not for the faint of heart. I...

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Fallon Tonight Show Debut and the Culture of Cynicism

Having grown up with The Tonight Show in the Johnny Carson era (my folks watched it every ...

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New York Times Almost Swerves Into the Truth, Then Crashes

When you see an article in The New York Times about marriage you can pretty much guess wha...