Is liberalism giving way to something new? The most notable contemporary case for postliberalism, Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed, has four tacit assumptions: First, America is in decline. Second, liberalism is responsible for this decline. Third, liberalism is collapsing under the . . . . Continue Reading »
Phil Spector was the very model of the modern music producer, and also a convicted murderer.
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For better or worse, it’s an EC world, we just live in it.
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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 »
When healthy, reasonable sources of solidarity and communion are allowed to wither and die, unhealthy, unreasonable versions gather strength. Continue Reading »
Hollywood needs to learn that evil is not all that interesting. Continue Reading »
A new documentary tells a story of forgiveness in the shadow of the South's Confederate past. Continue Reading »
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 »
What does Sinéad O’Connor’s Muslim conversion tell us? Continue Reading »
Denunciations of West show how brittle the nostalgic orthodoxy of black leadership has now become. Continue Reading »
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