A few years back, in his review of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice for The Weekly Standard,* John Podhoretz complained that the sound mix made it almost impossible to hear the...
First, John McCormack — a reporter for The Weekly Standard — goes to New York to cover the special election in NY-23 and ends up getting the cops called on...
In my various discussions of Avatar, I’ve tried to stay away from the obvious political aspects of the film — it’s a mass of hoary liberal cliches about big business...
The NY Times has stirred the pot by asking this question on the front page of its latest Week in Review. Bob Stein suggests this is just a tread-worn conservative...
Let’s play a game: “Which one of these doesn’t belong?” “Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history,” Stone told reporters at the Television...
Before today, I never heard of the Pak Institute for Peace Studies, or PIPS. This week, PIPS released a report (PDF) that totaled up the number of violent deaths in...
