“Who in the hell would make a film about the national debt?” David Walker, that’s who.
A second look at the evangelical icon.
The films of Jean Luc Godard at the American Film Institute.
The tide is turning on gay marriage. When will the GOP notice?
By voting against the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the Irish have taken a stand for sovereignty and democracy.
Six more months of data, polling, and electoral math.
Obama’s mystical aura can only last for so long.
Did the Bear Stearns deal set the stage for a wave of bailouts? A former senior official at the Fed says yes.
What constitutes legitimate criticism of Israel? (From the print edition.)
What you can learn from a candidate’s choice of food.
Using the internet to advocate for a borderless world.
The Allied landing never seemed real. It was a movie, a history lesson — not real life.
How conservatives get academia wrong.
Sarah stood for a moment, listening, and felt a surge of anger and resentment: All the furniture in her old room had been replaced, but she still had the memories that tied her to her father’s house. She was partly here, a guest in the guest bedroom, and partly still thirteen years old and at home.
Does the ultimate chick show have anything for a man?
How Bob Barr’s presidential run hurts John McCain.
How The Runner gets the Ivy League wrong.
A new form of Catholic education, born of financial necessity, is creating results for at-risk kids. Do the lessons of the Cristo Rey schools hold the key for broad education reform?
Why conservatives should embrace new ideas and local governance.
Inside the political numbers racket.
Meet the man behind Eduwonk. (From the print edition.)
What changing suburban demographics mean for the GOP.
How cloning Tom Wolfe can save right-wing journalism.
How have blogs changed journalism? Why are corporate blogs so bad? Ubiquitous tech and policy blogger Tim Lee tells all.
How the tale of a girl who bears a shockingly located set of fangs upends the revenge-film formula.
From escort to White House correspondent, the self-styled “Voice of the New Media” abides. (From the print edition.)
Hawaii’s congressional delegation wants the federal government to enshrine a racial purity test in law, roll back decades of social progress, and set the stage for the state’s eventual secession.
Demystifying the prof-crush.
Why a small band of upstart filmmakers is spending six figures on a short film no one will see.
From rappers to novelists to our very own lives, the cultural demand for authenticity has never been higher. But is it worth the price?
Former Congressman Bob Barr talks big on small government as he vies for this year’s Libertarian Party presidential nomination.
We’re pleased to announce that in a few short weeks, Brainwash will be relaunched as Doublethink Online.
Move over Austria and Chicago. George Mason University makes economics interesting.
The Beltway’s best and brightest never stop working — and never take credit.
Reason science reporter Ron Bailey’s recent conversion on global warming has other libertarians all fired up.
Reckoning with ten years of life lived in the shadow of the world’s biggest — and most elusive — indie rockers.
The Joe Trippi of the Right.
Everyone agreed it was a great party until Jesus arrived.
One woman’s quest for flesh.
Everything is half as dangerous as it’s supposed to be.
Why racism is still alive, and how conservatives can deal with it.
Why asking a favor is better than doing one.
Libertarian politics and funky grooves.
Why the hell would a libertarian move to Sweden?
Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters used to mud-wrestle for this type of interview, back when the plum assignment was Mother Teresa or Princess Diana or Jennifer Aniston or President-elect Hillary Clinton. Men never get these gigs.
Now that even the Democratic presidential frontrunners are endorsing keeping troops in Iraq, the doves have lost. But that doesn’t mean the issue is anywhere near settled.
An online gambling website based in Antigua may wind up responsible for one of the greatest fights in intellectual property rights ever. Who would you bet on?
Politics might just be a game, but it’s still broken.
The First Solo Female Anchor should probably be the First Solo Female Anchor to Quit. After all, she doesn’t like it, right?
LiveJournal suicides, Theresa Duncan, and why you need to shut your laptop to mourn the dead.
Senator Craig’s resignation was less about anonymous sex in a bathroom, and more about his inability to live up to his moral rhetoric. Would he have been better off never discussing morality in the first place?
It’s the franking privilege, stupid. Also, the unions are stymied over endorsements, until they remember the Dodd loophole. Finally, Mike Huckabee’s diet plan can work for anybody, it just needs to be required by law.
Bribery rules in Ukraine, even as the country is in the midst of reform.
Bob Novak’s chronicle of Beltway history is really the love story of a journalist and his beat.
Mike Huckabee’s victory lap is more like a victory slap. Also, Barack Obama for Taliban Information Minister! And Ted Stevens is earmarked for an indictment.
Critics of Matt Sanchez think he’s a hypocrite for being and a conservative activist and a former porn actor. Is he?
Democratic Structure: Promise the world. Republican Structure: Quit while you’re not ahead. And the New Hampshire primaries are likely to include time machines in the next go-round.
London needs a new mayor, and what better than a credential-carrying conservative?
President Bush leaps ahead of the news cycle by signing wiretapping legislation Sunday night, but that won’t stop the criticism. Sunnis aren’t too happy with their government. And Sarkozy’s bold work ethic doesn’t apply to photographers.
Barack Obama, you silly war hawk you. Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition gets criticism from the New York Times. And liberal bloggers are all about free speech — keeping it to themselves, that is.
An exclusive interview reveals that libertarians dissatisfied with Ron Paul have another option: Former Senator Mike Gravel.
Hillary’s the real man when it comes to foreign policy. Joe Biden’s got a thing about guns, but it’s not a clue. And is Fred Thompson’s leaky ship seaworthy?
Are cigarette taxes a great new way to fund healthcare for poor kids, or will it wind up hurting the poor anyway?
Record companies are trying to fight illegal piracy. In the end, however, they’re watching everything you’re doing online.
Don Young: Representative of Alaska, or Scrooge McDuck? Jack Murtha’s a big fan of the Department of Creative Energy, what with all the creative ways Congress is spending money. And be sure to visit the Rangel Center for Public Service — because selflessness is a virtue.
He’s for getting out of Iraq. He wants to dissolve government agencies. But what about gays in the military, or in marriage?
The U.S. Treasury isn’t a party favor, but someone ought to tell that to Congress.
How to win friends and become a key public official. But just don’t acquire a hooker habit. And one Nobel Peace Prize winner teaches us how to kill someone. Nonviolently, of course.
Will the “trauma pill” erase what makes us human?
Despite his protests to the contrary, the legendary scientist was a believer — not in God, but in little green men.
What does copyright mean in a YouTube world? And who gets to decide?
Baylen Linnekin tastes the forbidden food and investigates why it’s so controversial.
Everyone who advocates sex education is advocating the imposition of a set of values, but only conservatives seem to realize it. In fact, they’re quite up front about it, while liberals tend to believe in some imaginary demarcation between ethics and policy that exists only in their heads.
Jeremy Lott’s unlikely path to political journalism.
For three days after he was fired, Francis sat in the living room, despondent, watching TV. Then he started playing the game.
McCain is getting thrifty with his money, while Obama is eyeing the not-Hillary vote (and cutting his own hair). Meanwhile, Gore is leaving a big carbon footprint.
The bombings in London have refocused Britains attention — but how will the new Prime Minister respond?
Apparently, Brownback voted for the immigration bill before he voted against it. Really.
A renegade cop is appealing, except when he’s busting down your door for the wrong reasons.
Our weekly podcast discussing current events. This week: Bloomberg and the GOP, Giuliani and the Iraq Study Group, torture, and the Take Back America straw poll.
This potential presidential candidate needs to learn that there’s already a reward for good behavior — it’s called success.
Bloomberg has a big truth problem, but not as big as a Giuliani’s little friend in South Carolina. And faced with talk radio critics, Hillary and Nancy surmise that there ought to be a law…
Join us as we discuss the surge, the Gonzales saga, immigration reform, 9/11 profiteering, and below the fold news from our panelists.
A visit to New York helps a guy realize how little Washington makes sense.
Speaker Pelosi is going to have to fire her travel agent. Meanwhile, Democrats are showing America how to get things done, and America is crying “stop!” And somebody get Mike Gravel a translator.
We’re interested in Paris Hilton because we’re interested in reality. Really.
The West Nile Virus is a threat, but a teeny, tiny, eensy, weensy little one. So why waste money trying to fight it?
How can libertarianism guide your conscience?
Mike Huckabee for Education Secretary, Kucinich for Osama’s executioner, and Bono for an appointment with Canadian PM Steve Harper’s secretary.
Get your cell phone company to agree to an “open” relationship.
A long line of conservative Italian political thought goes ignored when we get caught up looking at Italy’s current state.
This weekly roundup notes Fred Thompson’s innovative (read: lazy) run for President, Justice Ginsburg’s newfound appreciation for legislation, and a few people having the nerve to walk into America.
If the government is acting like our parents, why not rebel?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is cracking down on seat belt usage, but are they overusing their scare tactics?
If we get Monday off next week, that means we get Friday off this week, right? Yes! … If you work for the government.
Ron Paul might have given Rudy to score political points, but don’t think that means his remark on 9-11 was wrong.
The Evangelical right is going nowhere if it continues to go negative on Romney.
John Tabin rounds up notable political stories of the week.
Hedgehogs and foxes in the Sudan divestment race.
The show’s panelists this week are David Freddoso of Inside Political Report, Brainwash editor J.P. Freire, and Kerry Howley from Reason magazine. David White hosts. Topics covered include funding Iraq, Giuliani and abortion, and below the fold news from our panelists.
Relive your college days. Or, if you didn’t go to college, pretend to “relive” them. I don’t know, just do whatever the guy next to you is doing. Take this ping pong ball.
Not sure if you’re aware of this, but the Internet has changed everything.
Sarkozy’s victory isn’t the dawn of a new era, it’s just a politician who has always gotten his way.
Is love like jazz, or Wikipedia? And wouldn’tcha know it, there’s a lunch at Cato! Fill your week with events. FILL IT!
A podcast hosted by David White, join David Freddoso of Inside Political Report, Brainwash editor J.P. Freire, and and Amanda Carpenter of Human Events as we discuss the Republican’s first presidential debate, the Iraq funding fight, and other current issues.
The Republicans weren’t the only ones debating last night.
Fair use isn’t a game of “Mother May I?” It is assertion of our freedom of speech.
A podcast hosted by David White, join David Freddoso of Inside Political Report, Brainwash editor J.P. Freire, and and Kristen Soltis of the Winston Group as we discuss the Democrat’s first presidential debate, the Iraq funding bill, and other current issues.
You need to know what to do this week. And I happen to need to tell you. And I love to use infinitives. To die for.
According to the Supreme Court, the unborn can run, but they can’t hide.
A podcast hosted by David White, join David Freddoso of the Evans-Novak Inside Political Report, Brainwash editor J.P. Freire, and Chris Beam of Slate as we discuss the Virginia Tech tragedy, the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion, and other current issues.
The actual harm caused in the Virginia Tech shooting is bad enough, but if we are not aware of our hurdles to judgment we make ourselves more vulnerable to tragic events than we already are.
Don Imus’s firing gives Sen. Obama something ridiculous to say, and Harry Reid is a pretty forgetful senator.
ABC News anchorman Terry Moran’s recent remarks on the Duke rape case make Don Imus look like a racially sensitive civil rights activist.
Join David White, David Freddoso of the Evans-Novak Inside Political Report, Brainwash editor J.P. Freire, and James Kirchick of The New Republic as they discuss the fall of Don Imus, the vindication of Duke’s lacross team, and below-the-fold news.
Taxes are too complex for the good of the economy, too complex for families, and too complex for small businesses. For big business and for Washington lobbyists, complexity means profit.
The sketchy, scary business of bringing the fun to little Jackson’s birthday party.
Adaptation, the process of turning source material—most often a novel—into a movie, has been around almost as long as the movies have. What does an adaptation owe to its source material?
If everyone is normal, everyone is boring.
The two-dimensional world of Thomas Friedman.
Megan McArdle: From unemployed B-school grad to blogger to professional journalist.
That was Jicky Adler. She took off her specs, as the actors stepped off the stage, and let the black frames hang from the antique old lady-like emerald-studded chain around her neck. Accessorizing was her way of establishing an image of authority.
Los Angeles appreciates the charity of the rich, but let’s forget museums. We could use a better transit system.
Hosted by David White join David Freddoso of the Evans-Novak Inside Political Report, Brainwash editor J.P. Freire, and Peter Suderman of National Review Online as we discuss Obama’s fundraising, General Pelosi’s trip to Syria, and the epic Bill O’Reilly vs. Geraldo Rivera.
Go for the carbon conferences, stay for the aquavit.
The Republicans are reticent, so the Democrats are the ones bringing in the cash. Also, Speaker Pelosi brokers a middle east peace deal — in her mind. Finally, Zell is the belle of the ball now that he purchased the Tribune company.
No one will mistake Second Life Hentai for real children but what if you Photoshop an eight-year-old head on an eighteen-year-old boyish figure?
Join host David White, David Freddoso of the Evans-Novak Political Report, Brainwash editor J.P. Freire, and special guest David Robinson, editor of The American as they discuss Gonzales on the rocks, Giuliani’s recent press, and Romney’s latest fundraising tactic.
Ann Coulter isn’t just a schoolyard bully; she’s a conservative comedian.
An unusual morality tale radiates from an S&M domestic abuse fiasco film. What’s not to like?
The ‘1984′ Hillary commercial was less sensational, and more factual… fortunately.
Hosted by David White, we’ll tackle the US Attorney scandal, the Iraq war spending bill, and YouTube and campaign finance laws.
Hillary’s derailing the freight-train momentum of her own campaign, so why worry?
Al Gore, Vice President? Big deal. How about Al Gore, King of Hollwood?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest keeps trying to scare us away from food, but even talking about it makes us hungry.
If you thought you had nothing important to do this week, K-Sol has a few suggestions.
A toast to the WASP that makes our culture work.
JetBlue passengers may have gotten the shaft temporarily, but American taxpayers get it regularly — and continue to pay for it.
You’re young. You’re fun. And you’re eager to show off the home-made business cards your mom taught you how to make.
So the Internet has changed everything about globalization, but did we mention it makes a mean gazpacho?
Another scintillating (yet appropriately brief) edition of Haiku Brew. Drink in moderation.
A little alarmism once in a while is hardly a bad thing. So what’s wrong with crying about a big asteroid that will destroy the Earth and life as we know it every now and then?
Ann Coulter’s outrageous approach to politics has been widely criticized, but what does it mean for conservatives?
A female president for Harvard is less amazing than it is expected.
Seeing the Capitol building lit up at night may be inspiring to some, but they’re not thinking about what’s going on under the dome…
Your weekly dose of Haiku zen.
Your weekly dose of haiku revelry.
The rich are getting richer, but then again, so are the poor.
Any time someone tells you that one side of a policy debate favors “big business” and the other side favors “consumers,” you are probably being lied to.
Philadelphia misses a heaping dose of irony when the city orders retail stores to remove all Phillie blunts and other “drug paraphernalia” from their shelves.
In the United Kingdom, with the Conservative Party forsaking principle for pragmatism under the so-called leadership of David Cameron, more and more Tories are voting with their feet and defecting to the U.K. Independence Party.
The Federal Research Public Access Act hasn’t even been passed and it may already be obsolete.
Gay marriage advocates do their cause injustice when they sacrifice democratic principles just to reach success.
There are only eleven months left in 2007, but it’s not too late to make a few predictions for the coming year on issues we all care about.
The pro-life cause is making great gains, but there are still hurdles ahead.
Sam Francis was written out of the conservative movement. Was he nothing more than a racist?
Helen of Troy may have launched a thousand ships but Carrie Bradshaw has launched a thousand book proposals. Ever since Candace Bushnell’s novel Sex and the City became a hit TV series for HBO, the bed-hopping single played by Sarah Jessica Parker, in her famous Manolo Blahniks, has become a cultural shorthand for life after the Sexual Revolution.
I try not to be Captain Killjoy, and when it comes to fetishes I think most people expect some sort of liberating, feel-good-about-yourselves-despite-your-guilty-thoughts ethos from a sex columnist. But I can’t help you there, except to say if you feel uncomfortable about your sexual tics, trust me, there are people more messed up than you.
Economic populism is hardly new. First emerging amidst the collapse of America’s agricultural market during the 1870s, its proponents pushed for collective action among individual farmers to raise the price of agricultural products. That crusade soon resulted in a political movement that achieved widespread popularity, and the Populist party was born.
If ever you find yourself in an ambulance going to Borough hospital, you should open the back doors and jump out. A guy once said that to Kevin.
TCSDaily editor Nick Schulz buys out his employer.
Brazilian court rulings and copyright capes might spell the end for YouTube.
Christmas–and anything that smacks of the alleged superstition of Christianity–seems to be slowly but methodically being removed from the British public sphere (as it is in America).
Christians ought not get too upset by un-Christian businesses or people. They do not interfere with our ability to live as Christians. We should be afraid of government restricting our freedom to live according to our beliefs and consciences.
“Purity-test libertarians” stand in the way of any libertarian influence on politics.
Mel Gibson may not know where all the world’s wars originate, but in Apocalypto, he seems to have a gift for violence.
There’s something fishy about the new animated penguin feature Happy Feet.
The current rash of celebrity crotch shots is yet more evidence of how what was once private has become public.
President Bush, wrongly blamed for many things, is indeed to blame for making so many conservatives commit themselves to a neo-Wilsonian foreign policy of shaping the world according to our image and likeness — a policy both unworkable and un-conservative.
Virginia Senator George Allen’s loss earlier this month to Jim Webb was more than just a win for the Democratic Party, which needed Allen’s seat to gain a majority in the Senate. It was a victory for decency over boorishness.
To deal with man’s flaws, a conservative trusts in tradition and community. He also tries to guard against the concentration of power. Milton Friedman warned constantly about the concentration of power, and looked always to the past for a guide.
From Charles Murray’s Bell Curve to Satoshi Kanazawa’s new paper on IQ’s, each and every time, a new idea or provocative opinion has produced a reaction among cultural elites that is nothing but closed, dogmatic, rigid, and shrill.
What can Borat teach us about ourselves?
A new documentary on the F-word is gleefully salty. But what does fuck actually say?
Are art collectors only paying for the signature on a painting? Is a painting not valuable if the signature is fake?
This election has ignored almost all ideology and become a narrative about issues of scandal and incompetence.
What if I told you there was a surefire way to find excitement outside your relationship that doesn’t involve any difficult confrontations or soul-searching?
Anthony Bourdain, the offal-y good chef, author, and food-travel television host, may be the purest pop-culture expression of libertarianism today.
Our president is no Wilsonian. Now if only he knew that.
It may be that no other college or university can claim as eccentric and balkanized a conservative subculture as Yale’s. A major reason has to do with the Yale Political Union and the legacy of William F. Buckley, Jr.
Three years ago, Penguin Books lured Bernadette from Regnery, an exclusively conservative publishing house in Washington, D.C., to work in New York City as an editor for its Sentinel imprint.
Malie knew a lot of people didn’t like to fly and boozed themselves to make the passage less frightening. She herself didn’t mind a little something just to relax. But this guy reeked. Salesman, probably.
What do these three lawmakers have in common? They’ve all benefited from the Republican’s win-at-any-cost strategy.
Which side will prevail in Europe’s internal struggle over free trade?
Has cheating become part of the academic learning process?
Professional hockey’s popularity has fallen hard in America. But there’s no reason it can’t get back up.
The blogosphere’s influence is growing, but there’s a reason you don’t always notice it.
The original, unedited version of Sean Higgins’ article on the Modern Drunkard convention.
Meet the MySpace for people who don’t need people.
How to handle this year’s Senate race with machine-like efficiency.
Style trumps substance in Hollywood’s latest return to the noir genre.
Former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey forgets to bring the facts along for his new, confessional book tour.
This Novak insider only needed publicly reported information and a dab of common sense to tell just how far off from the truth was much of the media’s coverage of the Valerie Plame story.
Somewhere along the way, England seems to have rushed headlong into the world of animal rights, environmental activism, political correctness, and other liberal nostrums.
A review of the new film Conversations with Other Women.
While the NCAA makes money hand-over-fist thanks to its student-athletes, it hypocritically punishes them for taking any compensation.
The Pope’s recent comments about Islam were well stated–an atheist should know.
Why EU antitrust authorities might strip Windows Vista of some of its functionality.
A review of “An Enemy of the People,” now playing at the Shakespeare Theatre, explaining why Henrik Ibsen wants Al Gore to run for president.
A review of Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.
The thing about the coming Democratic takeover of the House is that it just might not happen.
The elevated, novelistic trend we’re currently seeing in television — and first seen in shows like Homicide — combined with the increasing popularity of DVD box sets, suggests that television may transcend its throwaway nature and acquire a new permanence.
Often the problem isn’t that Congress and Big Business have gotten cozy; in many cases they don’t seem to have gotten cozy enough.
Our “special relationship” with England goes deeper than simply speaking the same language, the great political virtues, moral habits and social customs which made America great are rooted in Englishness.
How folk Irish ditties instill a healthy distrust of authority and government power in the old and the young.
Have you noticed there have been no hurricanes this season? The science of global warming isn’t nearly as settled or simple as the alarmists would like to believe, and cooler heads are needed to counter the overheated claims of a global apocalypse.
Earlier this month, the FCC mailed letters to 77 television stations as part of a probe into the use of video news releases. One Boston radio station seems to be getting half of its technology news segments from Toyota. Should companies be criticized for such sneaky marketing ploys?
“We are all Lebanese now.” Why is that not a phrase likely to be heard coming from any American politician or official of either party, much less from any professional pundit?
To be successful, libertarians, wherever they can, need to promote policies that not only decrease onerous regulation, but also revive the American passions for not only freedom, but for full independence from the managerial elite — in politics, education and media.
Morton Blackwell’s thoughts on AFF’s libertarians v. conservatives debate: “I’d be careful not to generate too much of a good thing. Once every five years may be sufficient.”
A review of the new solo album by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.
Even accepting the premises of the Green Movement at face value, there is no reason to make society suffer, just to bring about minor reductions of emissions that won’t make a difference.
The story of the private army that, in 1892, shut down upstart western ranchers, and why the White House took its side.
Is the new socialist government in Spain whitewashing the country’s Civil War history?
The recent federal crackdown on online gambling and pornorgraphy doesn’t apply to big American companies that profit from offline vice.
I remember just before graduation, at a cocktail party, the college president’s wife politely inquired about my plans. I said I wanted to go into journalism or some other kind of editorial work. “Do you have a network for that?” she asked. “Kind of,” I said, “I call them friends.”
It doesn’t take much thought to realize that without some reasonable guidelines, sex is a moral minefield as destructive as anything in the human condition.
While no doubt some community affairs programs will have redeeming social value, it can’t be overlooked that public access often amounts to little more than a kind of old-school blogging. Sure, everyone is empowered to speak. But how many blogs are worth reading?
If there is a Modern Drunkard philosophy it is this: All of mankind would be better off with everyone getting their drunk on.
“I know plenty of people who I wouldn’t ever give away who are actually conservatives but who live in deathly fear, so they’re in the closet. It’s amazing. It’s really astounding. I say, ‘How can you survive?’”
The continuation of the Mark Helprin interview.
“Richard Gere will never be found. Neither will Terence Malick. Christina Aguilera, identified by her teeth. Haley Joel Osment. Samuel L. Jackson. Quentin Tarantino, jiggling on a stretcher so soaked with blood that it looked black as they loaded his body into an open ambulance.”
“You come to L.A., and no one seems to be working. Everyone is sitting around in cafes or at the coffee shop in the middle of the day . . . . You think it’s that easy. But of course, it’s not.”
Paris Hilton without sex? Unthinkable. Like Angelina Jolie without rugrats, Ashlee Simpson without “guide tracks” or Lindsay Lohan without tears.
Should the film industry — and taxpayers — support vile personalities, even talented ones?
If conservatives want the president to wield wartime power so that the Hamdans of the world can be shoved under the rug, all that is needed is a declaration of war from Congress.
An interview with Jeremy Lott, author of the new book In Defense of Hypocrisy.
Why can’t America get excited about soccer? It’s not hatred that defines American sentiment toward the world’s most popular game but, rather, indifference
We asked some of the smartest young people on the right for summer reading suggestions. What are they hoping to read this summer? And what do they recommend others read?
Justice Kennedy’s looseness with language has real consequences for the law.
An exclusive excerpt of Tim Carney’s new book The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, now available now from John Wiley & Sons.
Those who decided to break down the walls of public morality have not succeeded in patching them up with latex.
How the EU grew into a sprawling international complex of supra-national administrative institutions and bureaucratic networks, and why many Europeans seem to like it that way.
Like erotica, can esoterica be too much of a good thing?
Should politicians be fined for lying in their campaigns? The Washington State Supreme Court will soon decide that question.
Some of the summer’s best films and books aren’t new at all. A look at Jean-Pierre Melville’s re-released 1969 film Army of Shadows and Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite FranÃÂ?ÃÂçaise.
What F.A. Hayek’s teachings can tell us about net neutrality regulation.
Are the loudest culture warriors using pro-life rhetoric as a veil for the regulation of sex?
A review of Ann Coulter’s new book, Godless.
While Congress scampers to make new ethics rules in response to the Abramoff and Jefferson scandals, we see once again why the conservative answer to this problem is the libertarian one. Conservatism, understood in the sense of Russell Kirk or Edmund Burke, largely means acting upon the realizations that man is fallen and that power corrupts.
Can Democrats still lose in 2006? You bet they can.
There are still plenty of serious performers who offer concert-goers more than mere theatrics. Three of them came to the Washington, D.C., area this spring: Peter Serkin, Yo-Yo Ma, and Angela Hewitt.
One might say that the modern history of Holland is the history of Europe, writ small.
We’ve grown accustomed to assuming that computerized devices are always better than older technologies. That’s true of most devices, but it’s probably not true of voting machines. When it comes to our elections, it would be a good idea to follow the KISS principle: Keep It Simple,
Stupid.
Is Google News’ rejection of conservative websites censorship? And do we even want an impartial news selection service?
Though liberals like George Clooney won’t want to admit their slide to a neoconservative foreign policy, they might not have a choice regarding Darfur.
Why does Steve Jobs insist on keeping all songs on the iTunes Music Store priced equally at 99 cents? Has he never heard of supply and demand?
Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi’s unabashed support for the actions of religious fascists ought to have signaled to even the most credulous of admissions officers that he was unfit.
It’s no longer particularly acceptable to brag about one’s church attendance or volunteer details of one’s own genealogy or pedigree, but a blow-by-blow account of the short life of an ear of organic, local sweet corn is appropriate conversation for dinner and a credit to any cook.
Why is everyone so afraid of melodrama, when it happens to be true? Those old melodramatic plots had to come from somewhere.
Stephen King is much more of a craftsman than he is usually given credit for, and his books are always entertaining. Cell goes off track, however, when the author pauses for political statement.
I know Brokeback was supposed to be a breakthrough gay love story, but the message I got from it was this: One bad gay-sex decision can ruin your life.
“I have a soft touch, but it rarely comes out in my columns,” says Ramesh Ponnuru.
James Burnham provided a conceptual framework for understanding the dominant economic, cultural and political trends of his century and single-handedly imported a tradition of political thought absent in the English-speaking world. But despite his accomplishments and the tendency of conservatives to enshrine their heroes in the movement Parthenon, Burnham is hardly discussed.
A critique of David Vogel’s The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility.
The second new economy–the economy of genes–will change us forever. And it means, inevitably, that the meaning of capitalism will be changed forever.
David Brooks is among the few right-wingers with a well-developed sense of humor and an appreciation for popular culture. He is an antidote to all the conservatives who thunder about decadence as if Scarsdale was Sodom, and whose pessimism is so ingrained they can’t acknowledge that some things, somewhere, are getting better.
China’s official debut returns us to the high-stakes game of great power politics, a lot like a game of Risk.
The Duke rape case is like a Rorschach blot. From one perspective we see the race of the victim, from another angle her occupation emerges, and then it comes out that she has accused a group of rape before. But the only shape we should see yet is a question mark.
A humble attempt at explaining to Democrats how supply side economics works–and why it works.
John Meacham’s new book, like his Newsweek articles on religion, offers almost nothing in the way of substance. But if you like a lot of cheapened metaphors about darkness and light and approving (but not too approving) references to “transcendence” then run right out and buy this book.
The advocates of network neutrality regulations are working very hard to create a sense of crisis, but is there really a need to regulate the Internet?
A cautionary tale of how good business sense and prudent business practice is denigrated in favor of familiarity with regulations and friendships with regulators and politicians.
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 anything but safe.
There’s no good reason for televising Supreme Court oral arguments, and plenty good reasons not to.
Honoring The Dartmouth Review on its 25th anniversary.
It will take more than blonde hair and a Colgate smile to save network news from irrelevance.
Will “never again” finally be a call to action in Darfur?
Will Charles Murray’s idea to replace the bureaucratic welfare state with a simple redistribution scheme work?
By failing to enforce our immigration laws from the start, we have provided the safety valve for the political pressure that should have destroyed Mexico’s reigning culture of corruption.
Why big business is as responsible for higher taxes as ted Kennedy.
France recently mandated Apple to open up its iTunes technology. But the right approach is for the state to remain neutral, neither forcing companies to open their proprietary technologies to others, nor preventing rivals from building compatible devices if they can figure out how to do so without the incumbent’s help.
What do the French labor protests and the American immigration protests this week have in common?
Lost in last weekend’s hubbub over the three year anniversary of the Iraq war was an anniversary from the Western hemisphere. March 18 marked the third year since the Cuban Black Spring of 2003. But it’s highly unlikely that you’ve heard of this if you rely solely on the mainstream media for your news.
Conservative blogger Ben Domenech’s world collapsed in just a few hours on Friday and many a politics and media junky, through the magic vision of the internet, “watched” the whole thing happen.
The mythic alcoholic and mysoginistic persona of poet and novelist Charles Bukowski is captured in Bukowski: Born into This. But what makes the film a success is not its relentless evidence of that myth’s truth. It’s in its hints that the man may have been something more than just the larger than life figure.
Amid the debate over the “war on drugs,” there is an irrational hope surrounding the idea of legalization that often ignores the uglier side of drug use and its consequences not only to the users, but to society as a whole.
President Bush has been quoted as saying, “in Texas, we don’t do nuance.” But on the issue of ethanol, the Bush administration does so much nuance that they manage to take both sides of the issue–and then some.
A tribute to bestselling author and former Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne.
In the end, pro-lifers may eventually get the reversal of Roe that they have always wanted, but with it will come the realization that ending abortion simply isn’t possible.
The initial concept of Ave Maria–Domino Pizza founder Thomas Monaghan’s plan to build a community founded on Catholic principles–if implemented, would scale back on what the modern American understands to be the personal freedoms he is entitled to: privacy rights, free speech, free press, no establishment of religion.
How Rod Dreher has probably bit off more than he can chew when he takes on agribusiness, public education, McMansions, the free market and a conservative movement that long ago stopped being interested in the Eternal Verities.
Men run to porn to avoid the heavy work of dealing with women. But this means that they engage in less meaningful relationships and end up feeding the beast of their loneliness.
‘Unlike Jerry Falwell and the others, I don’t think I’m the only source of wisdom out there,’ says Reverend Barry Lynn. ‘I don’t think it’s my obligation to pop off about my religious views.’
An answer to the old question, Can you worship Ayn Rand and God at the same time?
Muriel Spark wishes, I think, nothing less for her readers than to leave them off kilter.
“All of them were jockeying for position. In most cases, the position was sexual. In other cases, the position was professional. In still others, it was both.”
Ilya Shapiro’s big ambition is to go to Iraq as a military lawyer.
In ancient times, men looked up at the stars and saw warriors, bears, and flying horses. Today we have a different sort of visual treat for the imagination — congressional districts.
Just like news and opinion is free on the Internet today, so will new music be tomorrow.
The federal budget is too big. It’s way too big. George W. Bush has called for total spending this year of $2.47 trillion. Here’s why corporate welfare should be the first thing on the chopping block.
In the PR-savvy Western world, extremists of all stripes have learned that if you make a big fuss about something, everyone will want to see what all the fuss is about.
In Music from the Inside Out, Daniel Anker conveys his personal devotion to music. In doing so, he’s created an inspired piece of filmmaking. No music-lover should miss it.
Delphi auto parts recently filed for bankruptcy because it couldn’t keep up with its pension obligations. How long before the same thing happens to America?
The young man who aspires to dress well must turn to books, but the revival in fashion has produced no Summa Fashionistica for men. Here’s a guide to the best tomes on men’s fashion.
The federal government owns 29.6 percent of the land in the U.S. But this land is hardly public; Uncle Sam likes to keep it fenced in.
Maryland’s new ‘Wal-Mart bill’ encourages the retail giant to leave the state, and it’s all for the benefit of declining labor unions.
A review of Autobahn, a Neil LaBute play now at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Most newspapers pay for the op-eds they publish in their editorial sections. Think tanks are in the business of paying scholars to write op-eds, studies, and books. Does that make those published opinions dishonest?
A new telecom bill would probably make things worse than they already are. For supporters of free markets, the best telecom bill is probably no telecom bill.
Contradictions abound in Nancy Altman’s new book, The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is nothing more than a mild disappointment. It is the epitome of a decent film: thoroughly, depressingly adequate, but not one smidgen more.
From public works to steel subsidies, government rarely gets it right. Government is not an inherent evil, but it is the next best thing.
If it’s absurd to require newspapers to sell their news, sports, and business sections separately so that consumers can get just what they want, how is forcing cable TV to offer channels “a la carte” any less nuts?
Our annual gift guide for all the conservatives and libertarians on your list!
Liberals talk endlessly about a wall of separation between church and state when someone dares erect a manger scene in a city park, but that talk ceases when a church wants to follow its own rules.
The Right is scared of a judge who actually argued against Roe, while the Left is starting to walk away from Roe altogether. How times have changed.
A close examination of the political scene in Washington suggests that conservatives have far more reason to be upset with big business influence over government, while liberals ought to be pleased in some cases.
Hollywood movies are replete with bad guys nefariously plotting to control the world, but these days, music and movie industry associations are looking