Pitching to the left
Democratic candidates for president try to appeal to an ideological audience that pays attention to early campaigns, but will that hurt the candidates in the longer term?
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Culture
Books
This is now
"A prophet is not without honor except in his own town"--perhaps in his own time as well. Thomas Carlyle was widely acknowledged as the Jeremiah of the Victorian age. He railed aga...
Books
Liberty!
Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute has long been one of America's most perceptive and challenging social scientists. Great Britain's leading free-market think tank has issued a vo...
Movies & TV
Something to cry for
Evita is a collaboration between Disney, the parent corporation for Hollywood Pictures; director Alan Parker, known for his MTV style; co-writer Oliver Stone, the historical revisionist; and Madon...
Culture
Culture Notes
Burger chain gives Rodman the boot The Carl's Jr. hamburger chain pulled its TV commercials featuring cross-dressing basketball star Dennis Rodman after the Chicago Bulls rebounding leader ...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
CBS News! They got any internships open down there? A Suburban Hospital (Bethesda, Md.) ambulance volunteer to CBS television correspondent Eric Engberg, who was being transported to the em...
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This Week
Killing the patient A Florida judge became the first state jurist in the nation to support doctor-assisted suicide. In a case sponsored by the ACLU, Circuit Judge Joseph Davis ruled that AI...