Love & Mercy is a superb new biopic about head Beach Boy Brian Wilson's creative summit in 1966, the year of the groundbreaking Pet Sounds album (featuring the sublime "Wouldn"t It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows") and follow-up "Good Vibrations" mega-single, the ...
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." " Karl Marx The latest liberal hoax exposed is a happy face mirror image of the U. of Virginia rape fraud: a massively publicized paper in Science, the most prominent American ...
Here's another set of polarities to accompany previous concepts such as Fringe versus Core and High/Low versus Middle that are useful in grasping why some things in modern America are automatically assumed to be liberal and others conservative. This is a reductionist, one-dimensional perspective ...
The four Mad Max movies are nominally post-apocalyptic, although their explanations for the end of civilization keeps mutating as the budgets expand, from the decline of morality in 1979's Mad Max to the energy crisis in 1981's Road Warrior to nuclear Armageddon in 1985's Beyond Thunderdome to all ...
Where's the best place to move for your children's sake? For several years now, a Harvard Big Data project has been crunching confidential IRS numbers to discover the enduring secrets of why some parts of the country nurture more prosperous young people than other places. Is it public ...
Like many nerdy white guys of my generation, I"ve found the life story of Bill James inspiring ever since I began reading his Baseball Abstracts thirty years ago this month. A night watchman at a pork and beans cannery, James began writing up statistical analyses of baseball questions (for ...
The governments of Europe are confronting an epochal choice in the Mediterranean. Do they allow Europe to remain on course toward inundation by the African population explosion, inevitably turning Florence into Ferguson and Barcelona into Baltimore? The conventional wisdom is that it's unthinkable ...
In his New York Times column "Checking Charlie Hebdo's Privilege," Ross Douthat took on the reigning orthodoxy about how we should only "punch up" at the more "privileged." Ross rolled his eyes at liberal cartoonist Garry Trudeau for arguing that the poor Parisian ...
Is Barack Obama keeping a little list of ongoing litigation against the federal government that he intends to take a dive on during the interregnum after the 2016 election? I would hardly be surprised. It's an old Democratic tradition. One of the more evil things an outgoing administration can do ...
Robert D. Putnam, a Harvard political scientist most famous for his 1995 article "Bowling Alone" about the decline of social capital, is the liberal Charles Murray. Putnam has long benefited from being the slightly dull but ideologically respectable alternative to Murray. It helped ...
