The bitterness of so many Kerry supporters over President Bush’s election victory begins to look as if it is giving birth to a new politics of paranoid fantasy. The old politics of paranoid fantasy, as you may remember, was popularized by Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11 and concentrated on the themes of the “stolen” election…
A charming, amusing but also moving account of the making of Peter Pan
More super-heroes arrive to poison your children’s imaginations — but at least Pixar knows how to make them fun
During this election campaign, our political dialogue has become a pair of monologues, each side’s attended to by the other only to charge it with bad faith — From The New Criterion of October, 2004
John Kerry’s bragging of his heroism may not have been very honorable in the traditional sense, but it tapped into a great post-honor myth — From The American Spectator of October, 2004
David Brooks, writing in the New York Times, asks “Why are we still tied?” — meaning more or less equally divided between red states and blue states. He calls this “the central mystery of this election” and theorizes that it is owing to something in the very nature of Republican and Democratic perceptions of the…
The controlled narrative of the news media’s view of the situation in Iraq cannot survive this encounter with the videotaped views of ordinary Iraqis
A movie better avoided by anyone with any taste is nevertheless extremely funny — and it has something serious to say
If it looks as if the stock of anti-Iraq War movies is drying up, you can always re-release an old anti-Vietnam War movie and no one will know the difference
Jon Stewart wants to be taken seriously — until he is, when he’s likely to decide that it’s more fun being just a comedian — From The Wall Street Journal of October 22, 2004
What, my friend Bill Schambra writes, is with “this sudden mania among Kerry supporters to get Bush to ‘admit he did something wrong,’ especially in Iraq. What on earth is that all about? You state your positions, you criticize the other guy’s, and the assumption is that he’s wrong. But of course he’s not about…
