politics-and-policy
What Exactly Is A Progressive?

Hillary wants you to know you are looking at one. The word progressive in American pol...

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Gay Marriage as Trojan Horse

Jonathan Last at The Weekly Standard has the best explanation I've seen yet of  what real...

humor-2
Modern Progressivism is a Killjoy

On June 12, 1987 Ronald Reagan, in a speech in West Berlin, told Mikhail Gorbachev, the Ge...

manners-and-morals
Crowding Out Common Courtesy

In his latest Boston Globe column, Jeff Jacoby argues that a misplaced emphasis on indiv...

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It Happened Here, Too

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

books
Stephen King Strikes Out with ‘Blockade Billy’

Baseball inspires great stories. W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe and Bernard Malamud’s T...

philosophy
Is There a Culture War, or What?

There is a culture war, and we need it, argues Carol Iannone on NRO's The Corner. I don...

television
‘Criminal Minds’ Episode Borders on Contemptible

Last Wednesday's installment of Criminal Minds, "A Right of Passage," is a perfect example...

philosophy
Surprise: Daily Kos Poll Identifies Republicans As Extremists

Before I comment on the results of the poll, one question: Where are the polls that show...

genres
The Toxic Philosophy Behind ‘Quirky’ Film(s)

     Charming, quirky films such as Away We Go aren't always as i...