By May 07,2006

The devastating experience of ‘United 93’

The first theatrically released film to explicitly portray the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, United 93, like the day it depicts, is wholly unique--a captivating, devastating experience that is...

By Apr 23,2006

Our perky savior

To hear the mainstream media tell it, Katie Couric will be the savior of CBS News. She’s perky, blonde–and getting blonder by the day. She is widely portrayed as a...

By Mar 19,2006

The real Charles Bukowski

“Hey, baby, when I write, I’m the hero of my own shit,” Charles Bukowski once told filmmaker Taylor Hackford, who was disgruntled about his appearance in one of Bukowski’s columns....

By Mar 16,2006

Catholic utopia?

Thoreau built a tiny house on the shores of Walden Pond to experience first-hand the application of his Transcendentalist principles. The Oneida Society maintained a community in New York in...

By Feb 26,2006

Crunchy-Cons

After the human waste and material destruction of WWII, Russell Kirk and Richard Weaver sallied forth with a political and moral traditionalism (an “anti-ideology”, in Kirk’s phrase) grounded in literary...