Merry Christmas from AEI
’Twas the week before Christmas on Capitol Hill
Where exhausted lame ducks had to pass a tax bill
While Pelosi in kerchief and Harry in cap
Put the spurs to the solons for ...
# 9: The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years
Blast from the Past (1999): Revolutionary Road is only the latest big-screen portrayal of 1950s America as boring, conformist, repressive, and soul-destroying. A decade ago, Hugh Wilson’s Blast from the ...
Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving I am thankful for three honorable lives that have ended in the three months just past.
In October, it was Professor Derek Brewer, formerly Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, ...
Leader of the Opposition, Again
— James Bowman is a resident fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Media Monument
Remember the Millennium Dome? Well, no, come to think of it, you probably don’t. But if you want to remind yourself of what this giant tent looked like when it ...
Mildly Mendacious Media
Oh, Lord, let me not be a frontrunner! Today, less than a month into the primary season, we seem at the point of pronouncing the political obituaries of the two ...
We Need More Heroes
Reacting to what many in Britain and elsewhere are regarding as the disgraceful behavior while in captivity of the British sailors and marines kidnapped by the Iranians, Simon Heffer recently ...
Vietnam and The Loss of Cultural Honor
EDITOR’S NOTE: James Bowman is the author of the new book Honor: A History, from Encounter Books. Here we excerpt a part of the ninth chapter of the book, in ...
“Hypocrisy Against The Devil”
Michael Jackson seems never to have made any secret of the fact that he shares his bed with the young boys he invites to his Neverland ranch. He admitted as ...
Another Bad Turn
This year’s Turner Prize for art, worth £20,000 or about $33,000, “went not to another conceptualist but to a craftsman,” wrote Nigel Reynolds in the Daily Telegraph. The craftsman was ...