By Jul 04,2006

The sabotage of sex

My parents have five children, two of my dearest friends come from families of ten and nine respectively, and I currently know at least ten young married couples in Washington...

By Jun 25,2006

Storm in June

Who would have guessed that a thirty-seven-year-old foreign film would be the summer’s first sleeper hit? Army of Shadows, Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 film, faded into obscurity after an initial lukewarm reception...

By Jun 19,2006

Liberalism as religion

Godless is like Slander and Treason before it, a best-selling extended indictment of liberals. In fact, I got the eerie feeling as I was reading that I had heard some of these self-incriminating New York Times quotes...

By Jun 11,2006

Celebrity classical

The Three Tenors are “the dominant symbol of American classical music.” Or so Joseph Horowitz wrote in his recent magisterial book, Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise...

By May 14,2006

The girl who cried rape

Do you know that guy from Modest Mouse? Yeah, the singer. Did you ever hear how he raped some chick a few years back? No? At the time I was...