Few have personified the phrase “self-made man” as did legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr...

Few have personified the phrase “self-made man” as did legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr...
Thanks to the people of France—who, by electing Nicholas Sarkozy as their president, have finally come to their senses and reversed the
After a nearly two-decades-long absence, the Man of Steel returns to the big screen in this superb fifth installment in the Superman series
Imagine a novel whose mysterious main character you do not meet until page 236. He is reviled by some for his greed and destructiveness.....
April 2006 -- V for Vendetta. Starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, and John Hurt. Screenplay by Andy Wachowski
The twentieth century was the high point of mass culture—or “the overculture” as some call it. Any culture that could produce Citizen Kane..
No economist in the twentieth century was more popular and more closely identified with free markets than Milton Friedman (1912-2006)...
It’s hard to believe that Bruce Willis’s wisecracking NYPD detective John McClane has been absent from the big screen for a dozen years...
When I was a boy growing up in the suburbs of Baltimore, few songs stuck with me the way this one did. I think I was nine or ten, and upon..
September 2007 -- The May/June 2007 issue of Technology Review (MIT’s showcase of student, faculty, and alumni genius) is called “The Design
Rescue Dawn is a great, if flawed, motion picture. German director Werner Herzog’s inspiring biopic recounts a daring POW-camp escape during
The title of Al Gore’s new book illustrates why he is the perfect spokesman for the smug, soi-disant “reality-based community.” By calling
Teri Horton—a 73-year-old grandma and retired over-the-road truck driver with only an eighth-grade education—just won’t (in the words of
November 2007 -- Brink Lindsey, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. (New York: Collins, 2007)..
Atlas Shrugged is an extended cry against the oppression of creators, most particularly businessmen: the Atlases who bear this world on thei
On the night of October 1, 1993, twelve-year-old Polly Klaas—a pretty, straight-A student with laughing eyes and sun-streaked hair—was...
Through television, newspapers, radio, and advertising, the mass culture of the twentieth century created easily understandable points of..
Sam Harris opens The End of Faith with the story of a young man who boards a bus, carrying a bomb under his coat. He sits next to a middle..
Postmodern scholars assert the following contradictory claims....
May 2007 -- In the previous issue, I wrote: “I offer Pan’s Labyrinth as exhibit ‘A’ that the independent revolution is over.” After seeing