January 25, 2012–It doesn’t take much to these days to get labeled a “provocateur.” Back in the good old days, you had to really work to cause a sensation — or at the very least, dance on TV with… Read the rest…
July 5, 2011–In an opening scene of “Napoleon Dynamite,” a 2004 film highlighting teenage perils and triumphs in a middle-of-nowhere Idaho town, the title character, a tall, gawky ostrich of a kid, disconsolately boards a school bus. He slumps into… Read the rest…
May 19, 2011–Personal political preferences can be a mysterious thing. Are progressives simply born that way, springing forth fully formed like Athena from Zeus’s head, thoughts of social justice and monorails imprinted on their psyches? Or are they slowly molded,… Read the rest…
March 23, 2011 - Old School, a cinematic classic starring Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughan, and Luke Wilson, tells the story of three buddies who decide to launch a fraternity – and launch they do, despite the fact that they’re each… Read the rest…
Published in the Wall Street Journal, December 4, 2009
Say what you will about Ayn Rand, but one thing is certain: She had no use for common niceties. A grimly precocious, friendless Rand declared her atheism… Read the rest…
September 12, 2008—In an election year, there’s never a shortage of economic bogeymen. With the 2008 campaign in full swing—and with the U.S. economy reeling from sky-high oil prices, the housing crisis, and the credit crunch—politicians are busy railing against… Read the rest…
June 27, 2008 —Fans of the movie Caddyshack will remember the scene: Danny Noonan, an earnest, working-class caddy at a snooty country club, is doing his best to butter up Judge Smails, one of the club’s more reprehensible members. Petty,… Read the rest…
