Christmas at the Coolidges
Once upon a time, Christmas trees were still called Christmas trees. There were no Black Friday sales, no “Jingle Bell Rock,” and certainly no lawsuits over the permissibility of public ...
A Shadow of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows understands one thing well: There are few joys as great in life as having a good enemy. Chess players know it well. The clock ticks. ...
Clooney’s Paradise Lost
The main character of the new movie The Descendants, played by George Clooney, is Matt King, but he isn’t very regal. He has quite the pedigree —descended from Hawaiian royalty ...
Coolidge on Giving Thanks
In our increasingly secular age, as we watch grown men play a boys’ game, as a certain parade sponsored by Macy’s commercializes our streets, and as we look forward to ...
Hoover’s Howlers
Leonardo DiCaprio, caked underneath layers of makeup, looks the part of the controversial FBI director in the new film J. Edgar. But looks — and great acting — can deceive ...
Chu Chooses Silence on China
Congresswoman Judy Chu arrived in China last week as a guest of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs. Yet even as she castigates America for abuses of Chinese people ...
Uday’s Body Double, the Hero?
After eight years of focusing on the moral ambiguities of the Iraq occupation, Hollywood has finally offered up what might be the strongest possible apologetic for the war: an unflinching ...
Facebook Posting Keeps Student Out of Medical Class
Paging the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, paging.
A University of Minnesota mortuary-science student was flunked for something she wrote on her Facebook wall — and also required to take ...
California Wants to Discriminate Against Asians . . . Again
Okay, so Governor Jerry Brown didn’t say that explicitly when he joined the growing chorus of activists trying to water down or overturn California’s Proposition 209, a ballot effort that invalidated ...
Tweet Your Way Into the University of Iowa B-School?
USA Today carries the story:
At the University of Iowa, a good tweet is worth $37,000.
That’s the price of a full scholarship, and that’s exactly what a student hopeful can win in ...