Cultural Caviar
The Italian Invasion of American CultureEver since Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, the D-Day landings in northern... |
Politics
The Spectator PresidentNo, this is not Watergate or Iran-Contra. Nor is it like the sex scandal that got Bill... |
Zeitgeist
Feeding Shirts to the HomelessOnly last week, I railed against the masses’ naïve and patronizing compulsion to... |
Cultural Caviar
The Progressive GlossaryI’ve recently been made aware of a strange new tribe who refer to themselves... |
News
The Week That PerishedOne of the countless unsightly blemishes upon the human condition’s soiled visage is... |
Borderland
Letters From a Screenwriter in TroubleDear Gato— You really should try the ozone therapy—cleans your blood. Kiedis does... |
Education
Let’s Not Let Boys Be BoysAs Michael Moore so aptly pointed out in Bowling for Columbine, the root of the... |
Trending
Lock Me Up and Throw Away the SmokesIn the epilogue to Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky provides the reader with a harsh,... |
High Life
The Long Slide From GatsbyAt an art shindig on Park Avenue, I spotted Baz Luhrmann, the director of the latest... |
Derbtown
Ideological CastrationPeople who live among words, books, and ideas, and who are scholars, or hobnob with... |
Crime
The Resurrection of English MurderGeorge Orwell was the first to mourn the decline of English murder. In his famous 1946... |
Scandal
Frequently Asked Questions about the Jason Richwine BrouhahaThe social sciences are supposed to help us make better decisions about the future, not to slather us in schmaltz. |
Bizarro World
The Fairy Skeleton of the Chilean DesertAmid the din of social, political, and terroristic unrest that takes up so much of the... |
The Untold Story
We Don’t Need Another Antihero“We don’t need another hero,” sang Tina Turner in an otherwise forgettable Mad... |
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