We decide which goods and services to purchase from an amazing array offered to us in many areas of our lives. But, for most Americans, two of the most critical areas are exceptions to our nationa...

Style: The pinnacle of this San Francisco band's long-celebrated (and recently reissued) blues-rock oeuvre. Worldview: "[T]here was more of what the folkies were after in [John Fogerty's] t...

This latest entry in the long-running Dalziel and Pascoe series combines the police procedural genre with an update of Jane Austen's Sanditon. In this version Sanditon becomes Sandytown, a planned...

Very little stings the ears like Rudolf Hess' horrifying 1934 Nuremberg rally speech, but that's the sound that Edward Zwick has chosen to open his new movie. "Hitler is Germany!" Hess screams in ...

This is the second time that British American Beauty director Sam Mendes has presumed to tell suburban Americans about themselves, and in that respect the soulless Revolutionary Road is an improve...

Rudyard Kipling captured Bombay ("Mother of Cities to me") with its purple fruits, shadowy palm-groves, and "gaily dressed Parsees wading out to worship the sunset." Kipling would have been fascin...

Doubt, an excellent big-screen adaptation of a Broadway play by John Patrick Shanley, starts with three familiar figures: a kind Catholic priest, a harsh intolerant nun, and a trusting young nun. ...

Leave it to Clint Eastwood to make a drama that generates more belly-busting laughs than most recent comedies and more insight into what drives and satisfies the human spirit than the majority of ...

In late November, pop singer Barry Manilow made news for two very different reasons. One was the release of the latest installment in his best-selling series of cover songs, The Greatest Songs of ...

Some books are poorly timed through no fault of the authors. Paul Linton's Abortion Under State Constitutions (Carolina Academic Press, 2008) is a scholarly state-by-state analysis of how unborn c...