Red Dawn backlash

By Jun 15,2010

Red Dawn backlash

Well-meaning people are concerned that the Red Dawn remake will just stir up xenophobic anti-China sentiment. Evan Osnos in the New Yorker: The new movie will feature Connor Cruise, the...

By Jun 15,2010

Honesty

Steven Hayward: This article needs to begin with a big mea culpa. In the April 26 edition of The Weekly Standard (which went to press on April 16), I wrote:...

By Jun 15,2010

Bad news from Afghanistan

On several fronts, but it all comes back to Karzai. Jackson Diehl writes that in Kandahar, the US military: …has stepped back from an initial push to challenge the entrenched...

By Jun 11,2010

The 1980s rise from the grave

The new A-Team movie better not disappoint me. You can’t invoke childhood nostalgia and then tear it to bits. When I was in second grade, my entire family dressed up...

By Jun 11,2010

The 1960s rise from the grave

Ramesh Ponnuru has an excellent article about libertarians and the Civil Rights Act in the current issue of the National Review. (Log-in required). Read this then read the whole thing:...

By Jun 11,2010

Who are the people in your neighborhood?

As a dignified homeowner and pillar of my community, I felt obliged to join our neighborhood e-mail list. Mostly, it deals with police reports, local school issues, and gardeners. Then...