The Same Old Oscar Show
Whatever one thinks of the movies being honored, and however fervently one roots for one’s favorites, there’s a depressing sameness to the annual Oscar ritual these days. There’s always the ...
Leo Johnson of the FRC and the Best and Worst of Human Nature
That didn’t take long: Almost immediately after word got out that Leo Johnson, a security guard at the socially conservative Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., had been shot in ...
Conservative ‘Corrupt Hairballs’ Welcome Catholics
How badly has the Obama contraception mandate rattled many Catholics? So badly that Catholic blogger Mark Shea, who couldn’t bring himself to vote for either party in the last election, ...
Liberal Repeats
Earlier this summer, Ben Shapiro released a book called Primetime Propaganda, in which he shares the results of 39 interviews with television executives, producers, and writers. (Kathryn had a long conversation ...
The King’s Speech: A Deserving Golden Globe Winner
I found myself in an animated conversation about The King’s Speech with the heavily tattooed twentysomething who rang up my purchase at Borders. “That was a great movie!” he said ...
Rising Above
‘Hundreds of thousands of men and women still happily asleep, with no idea that they will wake to their own ruin. If only they knew what we know now, what ...
In Love with Death
It’s not surprising, in the wake of Harry Potter, for a new series to involve teenagers with supernatural powers. The Twilight series has that much in common with J. K. ...
Lessons from Jane
Early in her book A Walk with Jane Austen, about her trip to England to follow in her literary idol’s footsteps, Lori Smith writes, “I’ve always felt a kinship with ...
Unenchanted
Pity poor New Line. With the release of the new fantasy film The Golden Compass, they have a shot at a huge blockbuster, à la The Lord of the Rings. ...
Father Knows Best
It’s “sweeps season” again for the television networks, the time when the creative minds will do anything that strikes them as fresh and new to get ratings up–which means they’ll ...