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...