
James Bowman
Writing in Vanity Fair‘s march issue, Peter Bart, the editor of Variety, pronounces with all the authority of that august…
Director John Hamburg’s I Love You, Man, which he also co-wrote with Larry Levin, purports to be a movie about…
Recently, our new Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, warned that we had been “lying to ourselves” about education in America…
Writing in the Times of London, Ben Macintyre notices that “One of the more extraordinary aspects of the wars in Afghanistan…
I remember when I first heard the word “conformity” used as an abstract noun. I didn’t understand it then, and…
If there’s such a thing as a money quote, the one in Sunshine Cleaning, a somewhat charming but ultimately unpersuasive…
Crappy days are here againThe skies above are drear again So let’s sing a song of fear again Crappy days…
Near the end of Frost/Nixon, directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Peter Morgan, there is a curious conversation…
Imagine that you’re a liberal-progressive with radical tendencies. Go on, it’s not that hard. You may not be a Marxist,…