Inconvenient Truth, An
Al Gore may turn out to be like Richard Nixon, as some are predicting, by running again in 2008, but Nixon was never this phony
Forgiving Dr Mengele
Religious wildcatters and spiritual entrepreneurs have long been a part of the American story. It was only a matter of time before someone brought the Holocaust into the show
Entry from May 16, 2006
Some more thoughts on United 93 by the author of Honor: A History. . . Here, at greater length, is David Thomson’s argument in The New York Times, mentioned in my review: The stress on false heroics has been reduced. Why? In part, because Mr. Greengrass has lived much of his life with the hideous…
Entry Points
Two books about people whose businesses, and sometimes their lives, depend on “profiling” — From The Times Literary Supplement of May 12, 2006
Giuliani Time
Another political documentary conceived of not as investigation but as entertainment for those who already know all they care to know of its subject — except that it forgets to entertain
Dead Man’s Shoes
Yet another moral tale to illustrate how much is to be deplored by all right-thinking people the “cycle of violence”
Honor: A Talk Given at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
I saw a funny television commercial the other day. There were no words but only a musical sound-track and pictures of a fat guy of about my own age as he realizes that he’s grown too big and so begins a new regimen of exercise and eating right — both of which things he is…
A Plague of Scandals
How foolish do you have to be to suppose that those who run the country are “a bunch of fools”? Just ask the media — from The New Criterion of April, 2006
Guys and Balls (Männer wie wir)
A feel-good celebration of the gay agenda and in particular the fundamental principle that no obligation must be allowed to take precedence over the free expression of one’s sexual nature
Männer wie wir (Guys & Balls)
Guys & Balls (Männer wie wir), directed by Sherry Horman and written by Benedikt Gollhardt, is based on the perennial gay fantasy of the latent homosexuality of those involved in such manly pursuits as soccer — or football as it is known to the rest of the world. Ecki (Maximilian Brückner) is the goalie for Boldrup…
Humanized Without Honor
Hollywood loves terrorists because they are “human,” but focusing on their humanity makes us forget that their victims are human too — From The American Spectator of April, 2006