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A liberal gets alarmed at the state of our education system and the education establishment that runs it so badly — but not too alarmed

A portrait of modern sanctity which — very oddly, in my view — asks not to be taken too seriously

A movie to promote the self-conceit of ageing hippies left behind by "history"

Here are the good things about Traffic, Steven Soderbergh’s new and ambitious — and, indeed, epic-scale movie treatment of what is still here and there called the “drug war.” It does not glamorize drug taking, or drug supplying, though about a third of it deals with the first and about two- thirds with the second. Nor does it…

A paean to the sunshine and easy living of Provence inspired by Peter Mayle which stumbles in the attempt to turn itself into a romantic comedy

M:I-2, directed by John Woo and written by Robert Towne, is like the original Mission Impossible (1996) in being a postmodern-style romance of technology. The earlier film, which was directed by Brian de Palma, did for the deus ex machina what Shakespeare did for the Aristotelian unities, which is to say that it blew the…