Director Ang Lee’s films tackle a wide variety of ostensible subjects and genres, but they’re consistent in conveying antinomian-individualist platitudes.
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Review: Market Didn’t Cause Financial Meltdown, Thomas Woods Explains
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (2009) Foreword by Ron Paul Regnery Publishing, Inc. 194 pages ISBN 978-1-59698-587-2 $27.95 Buy it here for less. The reader should infer from this book’s argument that the system of money and banking we now have—including the central bank—is a source of economic instability and miscalculation. We need to consider alternatives to it. Virtually all analysis of the economy today, on the other hand, takes for granted that regulatory tinkering is all that is needed to patch up an otherwise sound monetary system. To the contrary: the system itself is the problem, and the sooner we cast away the foolish web of superstitions that stand in the way of serious, productive discussion of the issue, the better off the American people will be. So writes Thomas Woods, an Austrian School economist. His book Meltdown diagnoses the problems besetting the American economy and offers some cures—solutions that will call for a total revamping of the current system, entailing down-sizing the federal government both in size and influence over the economy. Such reforms, of course, will be met
Freak Storm Seen as Message from God
An unexpected, violent storm damaged a convention hall where a church body was discussing ordaining openly homosexual ministers and giving sanction to same-sex marriages. It had to be a coincidence, right? S. T. Karnick analyzes the implications.
Reconnecting with our American Heritage
Daniel Crandall Asks The Provocative Question: Is America inhospitable ground for freedom?
TV-Style Virtues Bring Strong Opening Box Office for ‘Inglourious Basterds’
U.S. audiences appear to be wearying of mindless action blockbusters and vulgar comedies, choosing stronger stories and better-drawn characters in recent weekends.
Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty – Pt. 2:
Daniel Crandall continues his important discussion about the primacy of culture in the direction of American society.
Hollywood takes shot at Palin again, and misses
Movie critic Christian Toto alerts us to what many of his readers see as a cheap shot at Sarah Palin in the upcoming movie, "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" I see it as more of a misfire — if not an (unintentional) tribute to the popular Hollywood pinata.
ABC Cancels Two of Network’s Best Shows
Proving once again its claim to the hotly contested title of Stupidest Television Network, ABC has canceled The Goode Family and Surviving Suburbia.
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