What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White HouseBy Tevi Troy(Regnery, 416…
AN ITEM HEADLINED “Wimping of America” in the Daily Caller a few weeks ago informed us that the intramural football…
OVER THE SUMMER, the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences issued…
Luc Besson made a couple of pretty good or at least pretty interesting movies twenty years or so ago. They…
FOUR YEARS AGO in this space (see “Rotten Apples,” TAS, September 2009), I wrote that movie violence, like movie sex,…
At one point in The World’s End, Steven Prince (Paddy Considine), aged approximately 40, finally gets around to declaring his…
In one of the out-takes that play over the closing credits of We’re the Millers, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber…
It’s a truism that war robs us of our capacity for self-identification with others — or at least with those…
A key piece of information which is only revealed in the final minutes of Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine and which,…