By • Sep 04,2006

The age of classic TV

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...

By • Sep 04,2006

Hamilton vs. Carney

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.

By • Aug 27,2006

Albion’s wayward children

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.

By • Aug 27,2006

Irish lullabies

How folk Irish ditties instill a healthy distrust of authority and government power in the old and the young.

By • Aug 20,2006

Cooler heads on global warming

There’s a storm brewing over global warming–or, more accurately, storms aren’t brewing, and that’s causing a storm in itself. People preaching the dangers of global warming predicted that warmer air...