Phil Spector and the Sound of American Glory

by Dominic Green

Phil Spector was the very model of the modern music producer, and also a convicted murderer.
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26 Jan 2021

EC Comics and the Pulp Takeover of American Culture

by Mark Judge

For better or worse, it’s an EC world, we just live in it.
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29 Dec 2020

Laughing Against the Dark

by Ron Austin

Keeping a straight face, I’m going to argue that American popular comedy has lost the virtue of hope, which was retained in the past by even the most severe satire. Hollywood has produced popular comedy in all its forms, including radio, TV, and stand-up. Discussing the most universal and lasting . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020

Joker and Our Crisis of Solidarity

by Sohrab Ahmari

When healthy, reasonable sources of solidarity and communion are allowed to wither and die, unhealthy, unreasonable versions gather strength. Continue Reading »

20 Nov 2019

Don’t See Joker

by Alexi Sargeant

Hollywood needs to learn that evil is not all that interesting. Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2019

Forgiveness at Mother Emanuel

by John Murdock

A new documentary tells a story of forgiveness in the shadow of the South's Confederate past. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2019

Superheroes and Saints

by Alexi Sargeant

Stan Lee wrote heroes at a human scale whom we could relate to very directly, whose triumphs we could cheer, and hopefully emulate. Continue Reading »

19 Nov 2018

Nothing Compares to Allah

by John William Sullivan

What does Sinéad O’Connor’s Muslim conversion tell us? Continue Reading »

29 Oct 2018

Kanye Goes Back to the Old Landmark

by Armond White

Denunciations of West show how brittle the nostalgic orthodoxy of black leadership has now become.  Continue Reading »

29 Oct 2018

Vice and Fire

by Peter Hitchens

A Song of Ice and Fire by george r. r. martin bantam, 5216 pages, $36.39 No English child will ever again experience, as I did, the joys of Arthur Conan Doyle’s great historical romances The White Company and Sir Nigel, set in the far-off fourteenth century. The remaining . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2018