By • May 02,2008

Iron Man as Political Rorschach

Iron Man hits wide release today, and my extended thoughts are over at the Standard‘s website. But I would like to expand on one of the points I raise in...

By • May 02,2008

Libertarianism and Moralism

With Will Wilkinson safely on the other side of the Earth, I am free to agree with him about something: It is tyrannical for parents to attempt to reproduce their...

By • May 02,2008

'Iron' Wrinkles

Ann Hornaday doesn’t really like Iron Man: Toggling between Stark’s impish goatee and Iron Man’s full-metal body condom, and amid so many generic fireballs, kill shots and earsplitting thumps, bumps...

By • May 01,2008

KG's no Zaza

My colleague Dean Barnett is a big Boston sports guy; needless to say he’s pretty excited about the Celtics. Nervous too. And I can’t say I blame him…on paper, the...

By • May 01,2008

Hill of Beans

That’s it ?* Twenty-nine seconds of head-tilting and button-poking and this is a thing, now? If you don’t know already, BEHOLD: This may be the only kind word for Hillary...

By • May 01,2008

Shout Down Order

What Julian and Megan said. If a lesbian speaker came to, say, Bob Jones University, and was subjected to verbal assault and made to feel unsafe by the actions of...