manners-and-morals
The Cycle of Poverty and the Culture of Poverty

Since Baltimore and its discontents broke upon the national scene a couple weeks ago, th...

omniculture
The Mount Vernon Statement – Well-intentioned but Short-Sighted

Conservative leaders got together and decided, “What we need to do now is pretty much wh...

journalism
Brit Hume’s Advice To Tiger Stirs Controversy

By now you’ve probably heard that Britt Hume had the temerity, the unmitigated gall, mad...

manners-and-morals
Italian Courts: Genes Made Man Murder

     Two Italian courts reduced a convicted criminal's sentence b...

journalism
PBS and the Great Hangover

Government broadcaster PBS is running a new, five-part series on a subject naturally inter...

commerce
U.S. Movie Audiences Continue Quest for Optimism, Positivity

 The animated comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was unexpectedly successful la...

uncategorized
Catholics Revive Indulgences

   Dismayed by what conservative church members see as a loss of understand...

philosophy
Housing Bailout Shows Stark Choice Between Liberty and Aristocracy

  Prosperity is the result of a cultural choice: whether to build and nourish a ...

uncategorized
‘X-Files’ Movie Tanks at Box Office

With real conspiracies taking real lives around the world, this summer's X-Files movie jus...

commerce
Making the Case for Censorship

Arguments over censorship tend to concentrate on it as a national issue, when there's real...

commerce
David Cameron on Media Responsibility

I am by no means an unalloyed admirer of British Conservative Party leader David Cameron, ...

manners-and-morals
Sundance Controversy

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