Movies
Stand and Deliver Revisited
The untold story behind the famous rise -- and shameful fall -- of Jaime Escalante, America's master math teacher.
Prophecy and Paranoia
Philip K. Dick's Minority Report was outrageous, horrifying -- and about 50 years ahead of its time.
Internal Constraints
John McWhorter, author of the controversial Losing the Race, on what's really holding African Americans back.
Bleeping on the Job
In which our man in Washington visits the halls of justice to witness gross obscenities and a towering pompadour.
Sex, Economics, and Other Legal Matters
Judge and scholar Richard A. Posner speaks out on the Clinton impeachment, the Microsoft case, and nude dancing.
O Big Brother, Where Art Thou?
What the new Coen Brothers movie can teach us about California's electricity woes.
