Some light, I think, may be cast upon the criticisms of President Bush’s State of the Union address this week by something said in Senator Jim Webb’s reply to it for Democrats. It was no news, of course, that the Senator thought the war in Iraq “mismanaged,” though his only instance of mismanagement (if that…
A sci-fi comedy that neglects to be funny
In a terrific piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, Kay Hymowitz writes of the recent fashion for exhibitionism in women — not only girls gone very calculatedly wild like Britney Spears or Paris Hilton but also older women like Jane Juksa (A Round-Heeled Woman) or Toni Bentley (The Surrender) or Kathryn Harrison (The Kiss) who have…
A new report for the British government urges that boys and girls should be taught separately at school in order to prevent the boys from falling even further behind the girls than, according to the most recent examination results, they already have. “Teachers should be encouraged to tailor classes to fit the needs of boys,…
A too-busy but still enjoyable account of part of the life of the author of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit
Another election, another notch in the ratchet of undisguised media partisanship — From The New Criterion of December, 2006
An excellent but unsensationalizing psychological thriller that exploits only one of several ways of looking at its literary prototype.
From National Review on-line: No Christmas is complete without The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College Cambridge playing in the background. That’s partly because I remember going to the service at King’s or listening to it on the radio for many years in England and always being moved by the combination of…
A pretty routine bit of Hollywood uplift in the sporting context which isn’t quite sure about what it really believes
An updating of a classic film of the 1940s goes badly astray in a now-familiar way — by turning its heroes into victims
More Christmas pandering to the kids. But do the kids really want to be pandered to?
