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One of our correspondents raised a question about the ethics of nudity in movies in connection with a remark I made in reviewing Dreamlife of Angels. In trying to pen some preliminary thoughts, I soon realized that the topic deserved a thread of its own, both because more needs to be said than is appropriate in a little “comment” box, and also to provide a better stage for our readers to offer additional suggestions on how to address this topic. Here are a few random thoughts to prime the pump: (more…)

What is a chick flick? Well, a young boy would define it something like this: nothing ever happens; there’s a lot of talking and a lot of dancing; at the end some people get married.

I’m going to define a new genre for this movie: French existentialist chick flick. (more…)

Roger Williams, because of his views of freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state, and the fact that he was able to implement them in Rhode Island, is celebrated as the founder of American liberties by writers as diverse as nineteenth-century Democratic historian George Bancroft (History of the United States, vol 1, p. 255), Southern Presbyterian theologian Robert L. Dabney (Lectures in Systematic Theology, p. 880) and the writer of the article on Roger Williams at Wikipedia. (more…)

A bill that makes denying or trivializing the Confederate genocide committed against Yankees at the Andersonville POW camp a criminal offense punishable by jail sentences will be introduced in Congress next week. Offenders will face up to three years in jail under the proposed legislation, which will also apply to those who incite violence against carpetbaggers, scalawags and black Republicans. (more…)

The story is of a couple with a young son and daughter in East Berlin during a time period spanning the fall of the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1990. In the late 1970s, the father defects to the west without the rest of the family. (more…)

Islam is often criticized for being a religion of the sword. Though there may be a good deal of truth to this, it has in recent years become a caricature that Zionist preachers, neo-cons, Judaics, and globalists use to cajole the American goyim into thinking that Islam poses a grave threat to civilization as we know it. (more…)

This is a sort of remake of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, with the races of the young couple swapped.

However, the intervening forty years have brought massive changes to the mores of society, and this is reflected in the mores of the movie. The triumph of the sexual revolution that was just beginning there is now complete: normalized, institutionalized, expected: (more…)

My point in this endeavor is not to give a full exposition of either Mormonism or Wagner’s Ring cycle, but simply to compare and contrast Mormonism’s Jehove and Wagner’s Wotan for the purpose of reflecting on whether love for the story of Wotan is rational. (more…)

This is a post-modern, post-Eleven James Bond.

Let’s see, plot summary. Bond goes to Bohemia; bang bang you’re dead; to Africa; bang bang you’re dead; to Miami; boom boom you’re dead; back to England. After a while he gets tired of running around all the time and shooting people, so he starts playing high-stakes poker. But during a break, he sees a man in the staircase: bang bang you’re dead. (more…)

That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time –John Stuart Mill

To balance out the ten worst monsters list, I offer my top ten American heroes. There have been many more monsters than heroes, so compiling this list has been a bit more work. (more…)