Some years ago, Michael Gove wrote, a propos of the emerging debate over the Iraq war, that scientists have a phrase for the point at which the known universe ends, and a black hole begins. They call it the event horizon. In recent months it has become clear that a similar phenomenon is at work…
When I type the word “aspirational” I notice that my word processing program underlines it in red, signifying that it does not recognize the word. I hardly recognize it myself, but lately have felt the need of it more and more. WordPerfect, like the rest of us, had better get used to it. Formerly “aspirational”…
A very funny movie, as you would expect from Ricky Gervais, but sadly lacking in ambition
There are sound reasons — unbigoted ones — for our policy on gays in the military — From The Weekly Standard of October 12, 2009
The media haven’t yet fallen out of love with President Obama, but they’re beginning to ask themselves whether or not criticism of President Obama from the left is a serious news story and, if it is, how it should be treated. For now it remains pretty much a joke, but there are hints and warnings…
A typical bit of buffoonish performance art from Michael Moore, yet thousands will mistake it for serious political thought
Odd, isn’t it, how the progressive side in the culture war is forever telling those of us on the conservative side how silly we are for fighting at all? I think it must come, like so much else in the progressive program, from the legacy of Karl Marx. Whatever else they do or don’t accept…
Bias isn’t bias, it seems, when it’s bias against “evil” — From The New Criterion of September, 2009
When fighting goes out of style, where are we going to find the fighting men to defend us? — From Policy Review of August/September, 2009
Sex ‘n’ violence, together with artistic hubris, have been the ruin of the movies — From The American Spectator of September, 2009
A much too long and incoherent but always watchable journey into the ever-stranger country of the 1970s.
The British seem to prefer turning the ordinary responsibilities of private life over to the government, but do they really love their National Health Service or not? The answer is probably that, like an overbearing or interfering parent, it is both loved and hated at the same time. Few would do without it, but fewer…
