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“Once Upon a Time, a Real Leading Man,” an article about Cary Grant by Mike Hale in today’s New York Times hides its subject in its headline. The word “real” doesn’t appear in the article at all, while “man” appears only in titles and combining forms — and in this quotation from the late Pauline Kael:…

This summer, on eight successive Tuesday evenings, I am presenting a series of films under the rubric of “Crime and Punishment” at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. (go to www.eppc.org/movies for details or to register to attend). The seventh film in the series, Body Heat, by Lawrence Kasdan, was screened Tuesday evening, July…

The death at the weekend of Harry Patch, the last British veteran — and, according to the Washington Post the last veteran of any nationality — of the trenches of the First World War has seemingly lent credence to his opinion, as reported in his obituary in The Guardian that “politicians who took us to war should…

This summer, on eight successive Tuesday evenings, I am presenting a series of films under the rubric of “Crime and Punishment” at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. (go to www.eppc.org/movies for details or to register to attend). The sixth film in the series, Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn, was screened yesterday…

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens writes of the contrast between the media’s attention to the death and funeral of Michael Jackson and that given to the 40th anniversary yesterday of the moonfall of Apollo 11. Headed “Celebrity Culture vs. The Right Stuff,” the article confidently predicted that, a hundred years from now the name…

Interesting that the media are engaging in what looks almost like a concerted effort at historical revisionism to mark the 30th anniversary of Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” speech of 1979. Articles in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Politico and on Chris Matthews’s show, many of them tied to reviews of a new book —…