Well, you might as well go ahead and be frank about it as The Politico did about the President’s televised press conference on Tuesday evening. The headline to their article by John F. Harris and Jonathan Martin yesterday read: “What Obama said and what he meant.” Their view was that the President’s “responses were typically variations…
Is it possible for a man to have friends without regressing to boyhood? Not according to this unfunny comedy
A wonderful French film which, nevertheless, seems to expose the self-contradictions of liberalism and multi-culturalism in education in spite of itself
A movie about the war in Iraq and the men who fight it whose superiority to the other movies about the war is mostly owing to how bad they are
I wonder if there is a case to be made that all the worst things about American popular culture of the last 40 years — and what a lot of them there are to choose from! — are the fault of the late Jack Valenti? Specifically, he is to blame for the introduction of the…
A review by Julian Barnes in The New York Review of Books of three new American editions of essays by George Orwell reveals that at St Cyprian’s, his prep school — in Britain a prep school is a private school for boys under 13 seeking entrance at that age to “public” or posh private schools —…
Derivative and way too heavily overstocked with morals, themes, narrative false starts and pathos, this movie is nevertheless not without its entertaining qualities
Want to make a documentary? You would be well-advised to follow as closely as you can the media’s master-narrative of 20th century history
Though I know that the notorious description by John Stuart Mill of the 19th Century British Conservative Party as “the stupid party” could hardly be said to apply to conservatives in general, I have never minded very much accepting the description for my own party. I even regard it is as being something of a…
The following, slightly adapted, was my introduction of Christine Rosen this morning when she gave one in this year’s series of the John Henry Cardinal Newman Lectures of the Institute for the Psychological Sciences at the offices of the Family Research Council in Washington. Look for a video of the lecture itself, titled “Virtual Friendship…
Not surprisingly, the spin of the Washington Post about the Obama administration’s lifting of restrictions on government money for stem-cell research exactly matches that of the President himself, as I noticed at the time, in his inaugural address. “Obama Aims to Shield Science From Politics” goes the headline to a piece by Rob Stein in today’s…
Readers with long memories — long as these things go in the world of Blog and Twitter — will remember my posts of February 12th and February 17th in which I remarked on the curious emphasis in the rhetoric of President Obama on the catastrophic economic situation he purported to see himself confronted with. Where, I thought,…
