Ferris Bueller: What Could Have Been
This weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. As Kathryn has written, the original script for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off contained a bunch of conservative lines,...
View ArticleThe Right TV
Not all TV shows are liberal. Some are, in fact, conservative - even if they don’t know it. It’s time to give credit where credit is due. Here’s a list of my top dozen conservative series in television...
View ArticleThe Top Ten TV Dads
It would be pointless to rank television’s top fathers by parenting style, since we all know what good fathers look like (Mike Brady) and what bad fathers look like (Homer Simpson) in the television...
View Article2011's Top Summer Movies
It’s that time of year again: time for the summer movie, the blockbuster, the movie all your friends are seeing and talking about. Sure, you’ll waste a bunch of money on duds such as Star Wars: Episode...
View ArticleEmmys Reveal an Out-of-Touch Hollywood
This year’s Emmy Awards once again highlighted the decline of traditional network television. Having Jane Lynch host was mistake #1. Lynch is Ellen Degeneres without the charm. She is nasty and...
View ArticleHollywood Is Out of Touch
I wrote last week about how out of touch Hollywood is with mainstream American values. Here are five shows from the new fall season that demonstrate that disconnect in action:The Playboy Club (NBC):...
View ArticleThe Welcome Return of Arrested Development
Arrested Development is coming back, and I couldn’t be more excited. Originally, when somebody told me about the show, I figured, “Oh great, another cynical Larry David--esque show with callback...
View ArticleThe Golden Globes: An Ugly Peek into the Real Hollywood
The Golden Globes are always a mockery. Everyone knows that the Hollywood Foreign Press Correspondents Association is deeply corrupt. Members vote largely based on who pays them off. The HPCA is...
View ArticleThe Oscars: Has Anybody Seen These Movies?
The Oscar nominations are out, and here’s my immediate predictions: ratings will be down dramatically this year. How do I know? Because nobody has ever seen any of these movies. Matt Drudge, who always...
View ArticleSAG-ing Racism
The Screen Actors Guild awards last night were essentially uneventful, except for two interesting points. First point: Jean Dujardin beat George Clooney for his performance in The Artist, which I hear...
View ArticleOne More Boring Oscars
This year's Oscars were just the latest in a seemingly endless trend of boring, self-important evenings on which we are supposed to be reminded of the "magic of movies," only to be reminded how shallow...
View ArticleRemembering the Sheriff
Andy Griffith’s death today at the age of 86 reminds us of a time when television was cleaner and simpler. Family values, small-town values were American values, not subject to controversy and...
View ArticleAndy Williams, RIP
Perhaps no voice is better known to Americans than that of Andy Williams, who passed away on Tuesday. Williams, of course, was thesinger who most famously covered Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's...
View ArticleTV-Watching in 2012
For years, Hollywood has focused its attention on indoctrinating Americans into believing its politics. From All in the Family (conservatives are bigots) to The Simpsons (the nuclear family is...
View ArticleTV's Changing, Will the Emmys Pay Attention?
Thanks to the Emmy broadcast coinciding with the Jewish holidays, I won’t be watching them live. But I will be interested to see whether the leftism of Emmy voters overcomes their desire to reward...
View ArticleA Talented Leading Man Exits
Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of the most talented actors of his generation, a leading man without leading-man looks, an actor whose magnetism onscreen sprang from intelligence and fervor rather than...
View ArticleThe Oscars: This Year, the Cult of Celebrity, Not Political Correctness
This year’s Oscars was a boring mélange of warmed-over jokes from milquetoast host Ellen Degeneres and uncontroversial speeches from the Oscar winners. And that was a welcome respite from the normal...
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Memo to Media: It’s Not about You
On Saturday, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer created a media firestorm by fibbing about sizes of inauguration crowds. After calling a press conference to claim that Trump’s inauguration had the...
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There Is No Master Plan
This week, the Trump administration botched the rollout of a relatively moderate immigration and refugee executive order that would have paused immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries for a...
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Trump Has Brought European-Style Nationalism to the U.S.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is a response to “For Love of Country,” the cover story of the February 20, 2017, issue of National Review. It is an awkward time for conservatives. It’s not awkward on policy...
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