Hillsdale College is now famous among politically engaged conservatives and others on the right because they do substantial advertising on talk radio and other conservative media. What most of its fans may not realize is just how great an example Hillsdale is of what liberty looks like when an institution of higher learning decides it’s not going to let itself get pushed around by the federal Leviathan and its smaller cousins, state governments.
The hugely influential economist Milton Friedman was born one-hundred years ago today. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was in spreading the understanding that free markets do the most good for those who have the least.
One would be hard-pressed to find a better example of Liberal Fascism than the move by liberal politicians to ban Chick-fil-A from their jurisdictions because of the owner's opinion on gay marriage. In fact, stop looking. This will do for a long, long while.The flap has all the hallmarks of an absurd, ginned-up controversy by liberals and the media they control.
It’s Thursday, and that means USA Network’s two best currently running series have new episodes: Burn Notice and Suits. Here are some thoughts on the shows, which you can watch beginning at 9 p.m. tonight.
The Dark Knight Rises is simply superb. Although it is subject to the limitations of the fantasy action-adventure genre, The Dark Knight Rises is top-quality in every way: cinematography, characterizations, intellectual inquisitiveness, political/cultural implications, visuals, sound, music, performances, etc. In addition, the various story lines of the trilogy are tied up very satisfyingly, while the writers leave some interesting avenues for further exploration in a new series of Batman films should there be any desire on their part to pursue them.
That’s an interesting question, which I’ll leave for others to decide, but it does raise some important questions. National Review Online has this as its daily poll question on its front page today, I’m sure a response to the shooting in Aurora, Colorado last week. The result is 86% say yes. I would guess the results at websites with different ideological bents would lower or higher, but few would probably say we’re at a high point in American cultural history.
Like many of his other public pronouncements, President Obama's recent comment about self-made wealthy people—“If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.”—is a truism that actually proves the opposite of what he suggests. It's true, of course, that wealthy people use government services, as the president observes, and that little bit of truth lays the groundwork for a huge fallacy. The notion that the rich should pay a higher tax rate than others does not follow logically from the observation that they…
It is a fact generally acknowledged, that the English do cerebral television better than the Americans, and Americans do action better than the English. But the two things aren’t mutually contradictory, as you may observe by watching the BBC series Luther, available now on Netflix. It was first recommended to me by Gene Edward Veith at his Cranach blog. I’m not sure about all the theological conclusions Dr. Veith draws—it seems to me that biblical and Christian references are bound to show up in any…
As I begin writing this review, it is 3:23 AM Eastern Standard Time. I got back from the movie theatre minutes ago, having seen The Dark Knight Rises at its midnight premiere in IMAX format. This for me is a first on a few levels: it’s the first time I’ve ever gone to see a movie at midnight, and it’s also the first IMAX movie I’ve ever seen. It’s also the most exciting movie I’ve gone to see in a while.The Dark Knight Rises clocks…
TNT's latest new series, Perception, basically combines elements of previously successful series, but it lacks an element crucial to TV success: a protagonist and close associates whom audiences can like, root for, and want to invite into their homes every week.
"The group-think of credentialed experts in large establishments tends to stifle creative and independent thinking. Those who question the experts are shamed into silence. If you don't think so, try contradicting an expert some time."
And I thought it was politics and religion that created all the strife and animosity in the world, but you can add to those two rock and popular music. It’s not often you see the kind of bile in a piece about music that you’ll see in “Bias at Rolling Stone Magazine?”, a piece by Jim Fusilli at the Wall Street Journal about the “500 greatest albums of all time.” I don’t think he’s very fond of baby boomers, or their taste in music, but…
"'I was fond of you, William,' she had told him. 'I still am fond of you. Very. But now I know what real love is and I do not want to spend the rest of my life with someone for whom I can only feel fondness. I love George and want to be with him forever.'”What happens when people become types. An original short story by Shmuel Ben-Gad.
Such genuine trust, so sweetly expressed, bears witness to an innocence in the human heart that endures even in this broken world and that longs to ring the bell backward and undo the days of history until all such trust would be justified in a world started anew and as it always should have been. There’s a large company of readers for whom a new Dean Koontz book is always cause for rejoicing. But more than that, a new Odd Thomas book is cause for…
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