Magazine - Life & Arts
Reviewing the history of action movies
Like shopping malls, instant messaging, and power suits, the action movie genre once looked like it would last forever. Throughout the 1980s and into the ’90s, a…
July 25, 2023
Magazine - Your Land
Best college football names of 2023
The middle of July may seem a little too early to start obsessing over college football, but the season opener between Navy and Notre Dame in Dublin,…
Magazine - Your Land
The Sound of Freedom and the smell of success
Sound of Freedom wasn’t about superheroes, and it didn’t have excessive CGI, a massive budget, or characters from beloved movie franchises. It just had a compelling story…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The politician suffocates the artist in Boots Riley’s new show I’m a Virgo
The rapper-turned-director Boots Riley has discovered a variation on Chekhov’s gun so stunningly original that he deserves to have all genital corollaries to the rules of narrative…
Beltway Confidential
Philadelphia is hosting FatCon, the first conference to celebrate overweight people
The contemporary craze for people to be their “authentic selves” is about to reach new levels of absolute absurdity. Three women from Philadelphia have decided to hold…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Spc. Grundle and the unexploded grenade
Some recent July 4 adventures with fireworks reminded me that the explosives we celebrate with are nothing like the exhilarating explosives experience offered by the Army. Take…
Healthcare
Law allowing for government ‘negotiation’ with drug firms on prices is troubled
A minor item in Politico about shortages of antibiotics in the country likely went unnoticed by most people, but the implications are far-reaching. At issue in the…
Magazine - Your Land
We could use some more wife guys and dads
“What the heck does good masculinity look like?” It’s the question of the day. The above quotation propelled a 6,500-word essay in the Washington Post by columnist…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Why Mission: Impossible thrives while Bond and Indiana Jones wither
“There is no ‘community of nations,’” Irving Kristol wrote 39 years ago this month. Give him a story credit on the new Mission: Impossible flick. A stunt-tacular…
Business
Much of the hot air is coming from Washington
Baby, it’s hot outside. Right on cue, a New York Times headline links this surge in temperatures to “climate change.” SOCIAL SECURITY UPDATE: DIRECT PAYMENT WORTH UP…