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NY Times Review Perverts a Baroque Opera

A recent review in the New York Times makes a bizarre claim about a baroque opera by a...

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Cultural Caricature of Christians as Hypocrites is Affirmed in Flawed Study

I’m not a big fan of the Barna Group, a “research organization focused on the intersec...

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“The Fifth Witness” Is First Rate

“I just don’t know why you can’t have it both ways. You know, give unbridled effort...

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Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep is a  fictional drama about former members of the violent radical ...

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You’ve Got to Be Kidding!!! Bill Maher Defends Christianity!!!

On my morning visit to Real Clear Politics I see a link that makes me think I must have wo...

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It’s All About the Children: Except When It Comes to Redefining Marriage

In modern America at the risk of being branded a bigoted intolerant hater, I seek here to ...

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Walker’s ‘Hailstone Mountain’

Lars Walker, a regular contributor to this publication, just happens to be a highly talent...

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Can Conservatives Reclaim the Culture?

If you happen to be in southern or central Michigan tomorrow, please consider heading to...

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The Great Pronzini

Today marks Bill Pronzini’s 70th birthday, and I want to join the discussion on the blo...

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It’s Finally 1984!

I think George Orwell might be surprised to find that the dystopian future he envisioned...

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Annette Funicello, 1942-2013

Annette Funicello, famous as an early Mousketeer and as the star of a string of 1960s be...

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Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died today at the age of 87, and we here i...

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It’s All Relative

There was a time, believe it or not, when Einstein's theory of relativity was the subject ...

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“Shake or Bake?”

Have you ever lain awake at night wondering who wrote Shakespeare? Of course you have. I h...

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“Kill Your Darlings” Will Please Hard-Boiled Fans

“I’m jealous,” she said, pretending not to be. “You could have had room service w...

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Portrait of a Capitalist: PBS Show ‘Mr. Selfridge’

Premiering tonight on Masterpiece Classic on PBS (check local listings for showtimes), Mr....

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Happy Easter, Google!

Over at PJ Media, "Google Celebrates Easter in their Own Special Way." UPDATE: I Came acr...

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Some Liberals Get the Importance of Marriage!

And I don’t mean the oxymoronic kind making the rounds in the Supreme Court. I mean the ...

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AETV’s ‘Bates Motel’ Worth Checking Into

A&E's new drama series, Bates Motel, is another entry in the already overpopulated se...

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We’ve Been Here Before: Justifying Government Control of Communications

The Great Unwashed (the ones referred to in the Constitution as "the people") just can't s...

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Nothing to It

Somehow this all evokes memories of medieval schoolmen, angels, and how many of them (ange...

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Philadelphia Mayor: If You Try to Talk About Race Relations, We’ll Shut You Up!

I wrote this week about an article in Philadelphia Magazine by a Robert Huber, who shared ...

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Shocking Michelle Shocked?

On March 17th, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked took the stage in San Francisco for a co...

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Bobbie Smith, RIP

Bobbie Smith, who had one of the smoothest voices in pop music, died last weekend at age 7...

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“The Black Box” Has Good Reading Inside.

I wonder if the recent popularity surge of Scandinavian detective novels influenced Mich...

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Apocalypse Imminent: Bill Maher says, “I just want to say liberals — you could actually lose me.”

No, this is not from The Onion. It seems that even the most radically leftist liberals, li...

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Motown in the Morgue

My first job after graduating from college was in Detroit. Prior to graduation, my high-sc...

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Will We Ever Be Able to Overcome Race?

It’s not every day that you see an honest piece in the media about race in America. This...

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The Tyranny of Contemporary Cliches

There’s a certain type of mystery plot out there that is really starting to get on my ne...

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The Truth about the So Called “Robber Barons”

As we all know and have been indoctrinated from kindergarten on, and see in popular cultur...

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Collins’s Latest Mystery Depicts Cultural Controversy, Is a First-Rate Read

Comic books are destroying the youth of America! Consider the evidence: they promote and g...

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Netflix Spending Generously on New TV Series; Amazon and Xbox to Follow

As reported here a few weeks ago, Netflix is making a strong commitment to original progra...

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CW’s ‘Cult’ Presents Interesting Idea, but Does It Work?

Having targeted young females in recent years, with some success but by no means becoming ...