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politics

Me in City Journal on the Media

July 27, 2010

The truly estimable City Journal has posted my reaction to–well, to several things:  Journolist, Breitbart and the cancellation of my novel Empire of Lies in France for “political and religious” reasons:
The book’s French cancellation is, I realize, a rather small cultural event. Yet it gives specific color to the recent revelations on the [...]

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Columbia VS The Murdoch Effect

July 19, 2010

Columbia University is the place where leftists give leftist journalists Pulitzer Prizes and then tell each other how prestigious leftist journalism is because—wow!—look at all the Pulitzers they’ve won.
This week, the president of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, wrote a specious opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, crying that American journalism, dying in the free market, [...]

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Outrage of the Week

June 30, 2010

Fantasy author Lars Walker – a welcome visitor to this site – has an amazing true story to tell over at our friends The American Culture.   It’s rightly entitled “Outrage”:
I attend a Lutheran congregation in north Minneapolis, one that belongs to the church body I work for. It’s large but not huge. The [...]

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You Heard It Here First!

June 29, 2010

Okay, get this.  In today’s Wall Street Journal, we read:
Federal prosecutors alleged 11 people were spies living secret lives in American communities, from Seattle to Washington D.C., sent years ago to infiltrate U.S. society and glean its secrets.
In an extensive and bizarre affidavit whose details echoed Cold War spy thrillers, the [...]

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Five Ways Toy Story 3 Is Not Like The Obama Administration

June 28, 2010

Here are five ways Toy Story 3 is not like the Obama Administration:
1. Toy Story 3 is Great
Toy Story 3 is absolutely wonderful.  It is well thought out, grounded in true and timeless values and shows a depth of understanding and respect for individual human nature, worth and imagination.  In all of this, it is [...]

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Most Important Story of the Week

June 16, 2010

Oh, sure, sure, you probably think it was this brilliant, essential examination of the Obama administration by Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal.  Ha, I say!  And did I remember to say:  Ha?
You must have missed this winner from Right Wing News:  “The 20 Hottest Conservative Women.”  Appearing at the occasional winger confab, I [...]

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Anderson Saves The City

June 10, 2010

Brian Anderson, editor of the remarkable City Journal, (where, remarkably, I’m a contributing editor) has given an excellent and wide-ranging interview  to  the Atlantic.  Conor Friedersdorf (a highly intelligent interviewer who Q&A’d me once a while back) does the honors in a feature called The Future of The City.  The interview, called “Saving The City:  [...]

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Wondrous Inanity of the Week

June 9, 2010

Not every week throws up a wondrous inanity, but a week when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opens her mouth has a good shot. Nanny Nan, speaking at the Catholic Community Conference on Capital Hill, told the audience our public policies must be governed by The Word made Flesh.
“We have to give voice to what [...]

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Happy Memorial Day

May 31, 2010

I’m taking the day off so there’s no Monday column this week.  Have a great day.  Give a thought to the people who make it possible–especially because, as of this writing, their commander-in-chief will reportedly not be visiting Arlington Cemetery to pay tribute to them.   But then, hey, why should he pay tribute to them?  [...]

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Mark & Rob & Peter & Me

May 18, 2010

This is pretty amusing, if you haven’t come across it.  Some of the gang from a new conservative website called Ricochet (see the news item) have been gathering at intervals to chat in the run-up to the site’s launch in the next few weeks.  This time, it was the formidable Mark Steyn, the hilarious Rob [...]

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