Carl Scott

Don’t miss the latest Mark Judge column in which he compares the new movie about Jackie Robinson, 42, with the new Selena Gomez party-feature SPRING BREAKERS. Why in the world would you compare the two? Well, the latter stars Gomez as a character named Faith: . . . she’s an evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »

Gay marriage, pro or con? That’s one of the basic political debates these days. And yet, the debate as it occurs 99% percent of the time is not about the actual issue before us. Over at NRO, a call by two former RNC operatives Liz Mair and Marco Nunez, for the Republican Party to abandon its . . . . Continue Reading »

Don’t miss this. It is the best essay I have read on the liberal dominance of higher education in a long time . Nothing fancy, just the situation. Yarbrough, a professor of political science at Bowdoin, and the author of excellent books on TR and TJ , responded to her school newspaper’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s biographer Claire Berlinski on Margaret Thatcher : Almost to a man, or in this case a woman, the historical figures who matter have had the ability to recognize forces accumulating that others either ignore or do not see; and when given power, they have the capacity to master them. . . . . Continue Reading »

Because I really, really like this latest Ross Douthat column skewering Ivy League monopolism/elitism . His excuse for commenting comes from the silly dust-up over the Susan Patton letter advising young Princeton women to take their dating possibilities for finding a good husband during their four . . . . Continue Reading »

In Bayles’ telling, rap’s old school period was not just prior to the advent of rich sampling, but also prior to what we might call the gangsta-rap scam . Old-school rapping did the dozens, did f-bomb-dropping comedy, did “battle rap” exhibitions of verbal prowess, and was . . . . Continue Reading »

This “Spring” semester, my Songbook is movin’ like a tortoise, full of rigor mortis , but hey, I can at least throw you a few tidbits at you until the next post: 1) In California recently, gave my True Grit paper to favorable reaction, was delighted to meet pomocon commenter CJ . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, I don’t really know. But that’s what we need right now. Any ideas about where to go for the best reporting and analysis on this?  Meantime, a pretty solid blog, Robert Koehler’s Marmot’s Hole , is probably the best bet, even though Robert’s skill-set is more . . . . Continue Reading »

My take on Mattie is a bit different than Peter’s, but the main difference is that I work more with the Coen brothers’ film—it really is an adaptation, nearly different from the original Portis as a classic poet’s adaptation of Homer might be. They add and subtract quite a . . . . Continue Reading »

So in my series of posts on rap, I’ve tried be somewhat complimentary before laying out the critiques, fair and balanced, appreciative of a few of the classics , etc . . . . . . and then here comes Shay Riley of the black center-right site Booker Rising, who answers the above question as . . . . Continue Reading »