It’s one of those moments when the abyss seems to open up at one’s feet. There is no surprise, of course, in the fact that a judge should have affirmed the right of a husband with an obvious interest in getting his wife out of the way to starve her to death just because she…
Hey! How did politics creep into this “lifestyle” fluff? Maybe because so much “lifestyle” fluff has crept into politics — From The New Criterion of March, 2005
Once you had to read the right books to cultivate a reputation for intelligence; now you only have to go to the right movies — from The American Spectator of March, 2005
Yet another nostalgic invocation of the hippie dream, though at least this one doesn’t pretend to be sexually innocent
Woody Allen’s decline into self-parody accelerates
About sportsmanship we should ask not only where it’s gone but where it came from in the first place — From The Wall Street Journal of March 18, 2005
Something between a hippie fantasy and a bittersweet memoir is a godsend to the New Mexico Tourist Board
In the school where I once taught, they used to tell the story of the smart-alecky boy in chemistry class who, upon being given meticulous instructions as to the day’s classwork, put his hand up and asked: “Please, sir, why do we need to do this experiment? You already know how it comes out, and…
Michael Medved has led an interesting life but maybe not quite so interesting as he supposes — From “Book World” of The Washington Post, March 6, 2005
A film that tries to sell its anti-war message by making American soldiers in Iraq into victim-heroes. Haven’t we seen this somewhere before?
God is such a disappointment to the media that they’ve decided to do His job themselves — From The New Criterion of February, 2005
“Raw Language Of War Will Fall On PG-13 Ears,” headlined the Washington Post this morning. The story told of how a new documentary about the Iraq war, Gunner Palace, is to be viewed without its original “R” for language, since the Motion Picture Association’s Ratings Board had upgraded its earlier rating, “agreeing with the filmmakers that…
