David Mills

A revealing list of what most people are using search engines to search for. A model of  Minas Tirith made completely of matches . Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham will play John Henry Newman in a “biopic” to be filmed in England called The Unseen World . An American scholar . . . . Continue Reading »

Making a point similar to R. R. Reno’s in The Bohemian Mystique is a writer for Mercatornet, reviewing the new book Pornland : Historically speaking, the 1950s are typically associated with the rise of suburbia and infamous for Leave It To Beaver style pro-family media representations. . . . . Continue Reading »

For many people, writes R. R. Reno in The Bohemian Mystique ,  the English painter Lucian Freud’s youthful adventures with criminals and other maladjusted misfits give his artistic vision a special authenticity. His experiences “on the margins” create a “transgressive . . . . Continue Reading »

The famous French “new wave” filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard will receive an Oscar, despite his anti-semitism , at the same time being Jewish is falling out of fashion . A Jewish monks describes being a dedicated Jewish contemplative . The federal government wants to extend its power over . . . . Continue Reading »

The New York Times declares that President Obama has said that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy “will end on my watch.” But the Department of Justice, following its tradition of defending laws passed by Congress, has fought efforts by the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay . . . . Continue Reading »

In today’s “On the Square,” Joe Carter invents another verse for the famous Sunday School hymn “Jesus Loves Me,” having to do with Scripture. “But is it enough to believe simply because the Bible tells me so?” he asks in The Bible Tells Me So . Isn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

“People apologize about four times a week,” but they apologize much more often to strangers (22% of the time) than to “romantic partners (11%) or family members (7%). The only folks we apologize to more? Friends (46%).” In literary news, Alvaro Vargos Llosa discusses his . . . . Continue Reading »

Lots of news outlets covered the story that Carla Bruni, famously scandalous third wife of the French president, had been effectively banned from the Vatican. ( CNN, for one .) The story was, as you might have guessed, completely wrong . It came from a satirical magazine, for one thing. Think of a . . . . Continue Reading »

“Back when Dan Quayle was criticizing sitcom heroine Murphy Brown for promoting single-parenthood in a way that could negatively affect society,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square” article, The Credentialed Gentry and the Unpersuaded Yahoos , “he . . . . Continue Reading »

“‘May his name be blotted out!’ declares the most terrible Hebrew curse,” begins the latest Spengler column, written by our senior editor David P. Goldman. History has devised a curse more terrible still, that is, to have one’s memory blotted out, all except for a name . . . . Continue Reading »