“Sex and the Single Girl, written when Mrs. [Helen Gurley] Brown was 40 and married, aimed to revolutionize single women’s attitudes toward their lives,” reports Mrs Brown’s obituary (by Kate Carlisle) in today’s Washington Post. “The book, published a year before Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, sold millions of copies and became a cultural touchstone with…
If our moronic politicians were not as corrupt as three-day-old roadkill they wouldn’t need the media to tell them what to do
A touching documentary portrait of a not-quite tragic fall from what passes these days for greatness
The problem with the super-hero is how unsuper everybody else has to be to make him one
The deaths in such close proximity of Gore Vidal and Robert Hughes provide a reminder that reputation for wit and literary fame these days have little or nothing to do with the content of the work on which they are supposedly based. Vidal was as wrong about, well, pretty much everything as a man can…
An occasionally enjoyable portrait of life for a latter-day version of the Noble Savage in the (very) low country off the Louisiana coast
It looks as if National Review is seeking to exploit what President Obama resolutely keeps insisting wasn’t a gaffe — “You didn’t build that” — by a offering up a mini-Festschrift for capitalism. “Capitalism means benevolent creativity,” claims George Gilder; Ramesh Ponnuru says that “the voter question Romney must answer” is this: “What can capitalism…
Three of the 12 dead in the Colorado cinema last week, Jonathan Blunk, Matt McQuinn and Alex Teves, all young men in their 20”s, died by deliberately getting between the young women they were escorting and the shooter, the usual pathetic nonentity who in this case was pretending he was the Joker in the previous…
This summer I presented on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. a series of five films on the general theme of The Enemy Within. The films were shown at the Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street N.W., Suite 600 between June 20th and July 25th. The series…
A thoughtful and very watchable film whose performance does not quite match its ambition
This summer I am presenting on behalf of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Hudson Institute in Washington a series of five films on the general theme of The Enemy Within. The films are being shown at the Hudson Institute, 1015 15th Street N.W., Suite 600, and you can go to the EPPC or…
