Oh-oh. This morning’s Washington Post tells us that “Hillary Rodham Clinton” — and since when, I wonder, has her maiden name once again become an obligatory part of her identification in the media when just “Hillary” would be quite enough? — holds a commanding 6 to 1 lead over other Democrats heading into the 2016 presidential…
The new movie Lone Survivor retells the true story of a small band of Navy SEALs on a covert mission in Afghanistan who chance upon some Afghan goat-herds, one of whom is a small boy. The SEALs surmise, correctly as it turns out, that if the goat-herds are allowed to proceed on their way unmolested,…
A very funny if very unreliable version of the Abscam scandal of 1980 with a distinctive, David O. Russell touch
A mildly amusing exercise in progressive nostalgia that has been much overpraised
A deeply unfunny movie, apparently, to nobody but me.
What a comfortable world of easy simplicities you must live in if you write editorials for The New York Times. Today, for instance, the editorialists tell us that, after careful study, “most economists” have concluded that the progressive view, the New York Times’s view of the minimum wage was the right one all along and…
As we lose touch with reality, we reassure ourselves that at least evil and suffering must be real. From The American Spectator of December, 2013
The revolution comes to the media. Fortunately, it’s only rhetorical. — from The New Criterion of December, 2013
The neoclassical dictum that art ought to represent reality is obviously something of a dead letter when reality itself loses its shape and its hitherto clear outlines before our eyes and becomes clouded by ideology. Reality to Marx meant something quite different from what it was to his philosophical predecessors (“. . . the point,…
