Culture

Culture

Aaron Sorkin vs. the Moralists

The bard of good government takes on TV regulators in a show libertarians just might like

Peter Suderman | 9.18.2006 9:19 AM

Civil Liberties

Narc of the Matinee

Director Kirby Dick on his documentary, This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Kerry Howley | 9.15.2006 9:48 AM

Culture

Artifact: Andy Warhol's Ironic Achievement

Nick Gillespie | 9.15.2006 7:30 AM

Politics

Art Deco, Ground Zero

Five years later, how about a design actual human beings might like?

Todd Seavey | 9.11.2006 10:28 AM

Culture

Happy 40th Birthday, Star Trek

Why Captain Kirk's story is the story of America

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.8.2006 10:40 AM

Politics

Sometimes a Bomb Is Just a Bomb

Gender has no place in the war on terror debate

Cathy Young | 9.7.2006 12:28 PM

Culture

Mary, Mary, Why Ya Buggin'?

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.7.2006 2:35 AM

Politics

Other Than That, Mrs. Bush, How Was the Film?

Who's afraid of the Death of a President?

David Weigel | 9.5.2006 9:41 AM

Policy

If It Feels Good, Don't Do It

If sex ed doesn't work, what is everyone fighting about?

Kerry Howley | 9.1.2006 12:35 PM

Politics

South Park Refugees

Republicans can't count on the votes of "Team America"

John Tierney | 8.31.2006 12:39 PM

Foie Gras Ban

Spoiling for a Foie Gras Fight

Kerry Howley | 8.30.2006 8:01 AM

Politics

What is Left? What is Right?

Are American political designations still useful?

Nick Gillespie | 8.28.2006 12:00 AM

Foie Gras Ban

When Foie Gras Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Eat Foie Gras

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.23.2006 11:52 AM

Foie Gras Ban

Chicago's Foie Gras Outlaws

Kerry Howley | 8.23.2006 9:08 AM

Culture

Endangered Evolutionists

A new film ponders the popularity of "intelligent design."

Kenneth Silber | 8.20.2006 1:00 PM

Culture

Too Diverse to Be 'Diversity'

Is it "harassment" to recommend a book?

Cathy Young | 8.20.2006 12:22 PM

Policy

Crystal Smear

Meth joke backlash

David Weigel | 8.20.2006 11:04 AM

Politics

The Fox Effect

Cable news and elections

Brian Doherty | 8.20.2006 10:56 AM

Policy

Hit List

Deadly sex offender registries

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.20.2006 10:43 AM

Culture

Embryos For Sale

Is the new service ethical?

Ronald Bailey | 8.18.2006 1:32 PM

Politics

Hot Fresh Politics

College senior Taylor Buley on his new book, campus politics, and why young people are turning libertarian

Nick Gillespie | 8.18.2006 10:29 AM

Civil Liberties

At 40, Is NOW What It Set Out To Be Then?

This is not your mother's feminism, and that's too bad

Cathy Young | 8.15.2006 1:52 PM

Policy

AIDS at 25

Where do we stand?

Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2006 1:55 PM

Policy

Fear of a Brown Planet

Immigration hawks send out an SOS: "More white babies!"

David Weigel | 8.1.2006 2:13 PM

Culture

Shopping for Me, But Not for Thee

The complications of voluntary simplicity

Cheryl Miller | 8.1.2006 12:54 PM

Culture

The X-Man's Last Stand

Former Hustler editor Alan MacDonell exposes himself.

David Weigel | 7.31.2006 4:03 PM

Antisemitism

Mel Gibson Drives Drunk, Blames the Jews for 'All the Wars In the World,' Calls Cop 'Sugar Tits'

Jesse Walker | 7.30.2006 11:50 AM

Politics

The Hard Right vs. John Dean's "Conservatives without Conscience"

Are Republicans inherently authoritarian?

Nick Gillespie | 7.30.2006 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Culture War Veterans for Truth

Why to deny Pat Buchanan's call for a ceasefire

Nick Gillespie | 7.27.2006 4:03 PM

Movies

Secrets of the Masonic Initiation Revealed—By Betty Boop!

Jesse Walker | 7.21.2006 3:29 PM

Culture

Video Virus

Criminalizing game sales

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2006 1:42 PM

Culture

Sense on Stadiums

Rooting against the home team.

Brian Doherty | 7.20.2006 1:40 PM

Culture

CleanFlicks v. Kate Winslet's Breasts

How Hollywood won a lawsuit while losing a cultural battle

Nick Gillespie | 7.11.2006 12:00 AM

Obituaries

John Money Dies

Jesse Walker | 7.9.2006 2:27 PM

Culture

AFI's 99 Percent Perspiration

Stand up and cheer, but for God's sake don't sit down and watch, America's 100 most inspiring films.

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.3.2006 12:00 AM

Culture

Literary Paper Lions

Book packagers, drunken exaggerations, hoaxes: Why do we still expect authenticity from bestsellers?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.1.2006 3:03 PM

Culture

In Praise of John Wilkes

How a filthy, philandering deadbeat helped secure British and American liberty

Daniel McCarthy | 7.1.2006 2:24 PM

Culture

The Cult of 'Manliness'

A curmudgeon's defense of "manly men" devolves quickly into self-parody.

Cathy Young | 7.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Erogenous Zoned

Sending sex offenders into exile

Kerry Howley | 6.30.2006 12:00 AM

Culture

Ubu Superman

Keeping an invulnerable hero from getting too boring

Jesse Walker | 6.29.2006 12:00 AM

Culture

Oh Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.28.2006 2:23 PM

Religion

Chicago Is Going to Be Your New Mecca

Jesse Walker | 6.24.2006 10:20 PM

Culture

Crude and Unusual

Why Ann Coulter isn't a national treasure

Cathy Young | 6.20.2006 12:00 AM

Culture

The Jihad That Failed

"Leaderless resistance" barely dents the U.S.A.

Jesse Walker | 6.19.2006 1:53 PM

Culture

An Inconvenient Truth

Gore as climate exaggerator

Ronald Bailey | 6.16.2006 10:20 AM

Politics

LSD: Let the State Disintegrate

Nick Gillespie | 6.15.2006 12:00 AM

Culture

Hooray for Hypocrites!

A new book dares to defend the phoney-baloneys behind the drug war and much, much more.

Nick Gillespie | 6.14.2006 3:40 PM

Culture

Really "Cool"

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.13.2006 4:22 PM