Public Enemies, Michael Mann's dual biopic about Depression Era bankrobber John Dillinger (played by an introverted Johnny Depp) and G-Man Melvin Purvis (an impassive Christian Bale), is representative of a growing micro-genre: the artistically ambitious crime period piece so stuffed with ...
Jacko was the King of Celebrity Eugenics. The late Michael Jackson was a strange individual, but his various obsessions, such as weight loss, whitening his skin, and expensively designing his children, were hardly unique to him. They are shared by more than few of his legion of female fans. To ...
How Multiculturalism Killed the Counter Culture When I was eleven in 1970, Alvin Toffler published a book entitled Future Shock, which prophesied ever faster cultural change. In the wake of the tumultuous 1960s, this sounded like a sure bet. Hence, Future Shock became a huge bestseller. Yet, ...
With Larry David back in the news this week for starring in (perhaps unsurprisingly) the latest Woody Allen movie, Whatever Works, it's worth reviewing David's misunderstood accomplishments. David, of course, was the co-creator of Seinfeld. Jason Alexander initially modeled his performance as ...
Following up on Jared Taylor's article, the Ricci reverse discrimination lawsuit now before the Supreme Court is not one of those "hard cases" about which law students are warned. There is nothing anomalous about the discrimination against the New Haven firemen who had their top scores in ...
Baseball's two highest paid players, Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, have been revealed to be performance-enhancing drug cheaters over the last year, making golf seem like the last haven of non-mutant competitors. Yet, is it? Normally, Tiger Woods is the most private of superstars. Early in his ...
From National Disgrace Online April 1, 2009 Dear President Obama, Be assured that no one surpasses us here at NDO in appreciating what you"ve done an overcoming of our country's stinking racist past. And even before you came along, we were among the first to proclaim your spiritual ...
Uncovering the roots of the disastrous home mortgage bubble that popped last year will keep economic historians busy for decades. Yet, one factor has so far been largely overlooked: the bipartisan social engineering crusade to drive up the rate of homeownership by handing out more mortgages to ...
Uncovering the roots of the disastrous home mortgage bubble that popped last year will keep economic historians busy for decades. Yet, one factor has so far been largely overlooked: the bipartisan social engineering crusade to drive up the rate of homeownership by handing out more mortgages to ...
For years, neocons and Beltway types have refused even to attack The American Conservative--preferring to pretend that it simply doesn't exist. Now the Washington Monthly is going after TAC and Steve Sailer, accusing them of--you guessed it--racism for criticizing the racial nationalism of Barack ...