Close to Home (Karov la bayit)
A couple of Israeli women soldiers have a hard time behaving in a soldierly fashion
Entry from February 9, 2007
In the state of Virginia, where I live, they are this year celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first arrival of English settlers, at Jamestown, in what was to become the United States of America. Well, “celebrating” may not be exactly the right word, for as part of the state’s commemoration of the event, the…
Because I Said So
[See “How Hollywood Lost Its Romantic Groove,” The Wall Street Journal of February 9th, 2007, under “Articles”]
Operation Homecoming
An unintentional experiment by the National Endowment for the Arts to show that any time you put war and “art” together you get anti-war propaganda
Last Sin Eater, The
A self-consciously Christian parable at odds with its own realistic setting
How Hollywood Lost Its Romantic Groove
Why can’t Hollywood make decent romantic comedies anymore? Why do they all seem to turn into sex farce instead? Read on. — From The Wall Street Journal of February 9, 2007
American Dreamer
Has the American Dream become a Prison Fantasy? An expanded version of an article that appeared in The American of November/December, 2006.
Delusions of “Reality”
Just who is it in American public life who is out of touch with reality? — from the January, 2007, New Criterion
Unreasonable Man, An
An ambivalent portrait of Ralph Nader contains a lesson for us all
Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
[See “Conventional Cuts,” The American Spectator of December, 2006-January, 2007, under “Articles”]
Conventional Cuts
On the creative and the less creative uses of the cliché — from The American Spectator of December, 2006.
Queen, The
[See “Conventional Cuts,” The American Spectator of December, 2006-January, 2007 under “Articles”]