N.Y. Prosecution and Lawsuit Over Sending Baptist Anti-Catholic Leaflet + E-Mail
Criminal charges were eventually dropped, and the civil lawsuit has just been thrown out.
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How Bernie Bros and Trumpistas See Their Guys Is Really Weird to the Rest of Us
The editors of the left-wing magazine Jacobin and MAGA-loving artist Jon McNaughton don't let reality intrude on their hero worship.
50 Student Activists—Including 'Current and Former Editors'—Protested Against The Harvard Crimson for Being Too Objective
Progressive activists want the newspaper to stop practicing balanced journalism.
Was Church Excluded from Maryland School Choice Program Because of "Problematic" Views on Marriage?
That's the question in a First Amendment lawsuit, which a federal judge has allowed to go forward.
California School Shooting Leads to Renewed Demands for Assault Weapons Ban
Plus: Uber and Los Angeles transit regulators go to war over user data, young adult novelists cancel critic, and ex-ambassador testifies in impeachment hearings.
Ford v Ferrari Is Thrilling, Excellent, and Not a Superhero Movie
Martin Scorsese says superhero movies are crowding out cinema. But plenty of great non-comic-book films still exist.
Review: Charlie's Angels
Kristen Stewart in another reboot of the venerable action franchise.
The Daily Northwestern's Apology Shows the Activist Threat to Student Journalism
A New York Times reporter says "the situation was way more complicated than it first appeared." No, it wasn't.
Court Strikes Down Kentucky's Rejection of IM GOD Vanity Plate
Vanity plates are private speech in a nonpublic forum, the court holds; restrictions on such speech must be viewpoint-neutral and reasonable.
Oscar-Winner Errol Morris on American Dharma, Steve Bannon, and Cancel Culture
"They wanted to deplatform me," says the legendary filmmaker, for the mortal sin of engaging former Trump adviser and Breitbart.com head.
A German Museum Tried To Hide This Stunning 3D Scan of an Iconic Egyptian Artifact. Today You Can See It for the First Time
After a three-year freedom of information campaign, everyone can finally see the Egyptian Museum of Berlin’s official scan of the Bust of Nefertiti.
The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Students for Reporting News That Triggered Them
A newspaper staffed by the country's most famous journalism school says it shouldn't have covered a Jeff Sessions event.
Radical Activists Hijacked Donald Trump Jr.'s Talk at UCLA. But They Weren't Leftists.
Campus conservatism must take the threat of the far right seriously.
Student Government Votes to Support Activists Who Think The Harvard Crimson Shouldn't Even Quote ICE in Stories
"The Undergraduate Council stands in solidarity with the concerns of Act on a Dream, undocumented students, and other marginalized individuals on campus."
Video: NYPD Cops Arrest a Woman For Selling Churros in the Subway
Do you feel safer now?
Why Raw Butter Producers Are Suing the FDA
Raw butterists are understandably salty about a prohibition on interstate commerce.
Kat Rosenfield and Stan Lee Wrote a Superhero Novel About Cancel Culture
A Trick of Light is the result of an unorthodox collaboration between the accomplished young adult novelist and the late Spider-Man creator.
Doctor Sleep Is an Awkward Hybrid of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King
Director Mike Flanagan has made a Shining sequel that struggles to combine its two major influences.
Errol Morris on Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, Theranos, and Cancel Culture
Outrage mobs kept his new movie "American Dharma" out of theaters for a year.
Monty Python Meets the Bishop
Friday A/V Club: The 40th anniversary of Life of Brian's British debut—and of a legendary TV debate
Review: One Child Nation
A quietly horrifying look back at China’s disastrous, 35-year-long national birth-control program.
Nobody Knows What Television Is Anymore
TV's cultural dominance is unchecked by anything except your own time, and increasingly tailored to your unique interests and obsessions.
Greg Gutfeld Is Done With Politics and Ready To Drop Acid
The Fox News star talks about Donald Trump, the 2020 election, the end of politics, and why he's ready for a whole new reality.
Martin Scorsese Is a Grumpy Old Fart—and Wrong About the State of 'Cinema'
As his $159 million new movie, The Irishman, hits theaters, the legendary director avers today is "brutal and inhospitable to art."
A Michigan Man Underpaid His Property Taxes By $8.41. The County Seized His Property, Sold It—and Kept the Profits.
A state law allows counties to effectively steal homes over unpaid taxes and keep the excess revenue for their own budgets.
New York's Place as America's Fine-Dining Mecca in Jeopardy As City Bans Foie Gras
The ban targets upstate and international farmers and city restaurants alike.
The Apollo Documents the Making (and Breaking) of Many an Entertainer
Harlem’s famous incubator of black performers gets a closer look on HBO.
Kentucky Printer Wins Fight To Refuse To Print Pro-LGBT Shirts
But the technical nature of the decision might not stop future lawsuits.
Small Taco Truck Company Bashed for Serving 'All Communities'—Including ICE Workers
The company was criticized for serving ICE employees, then criticized for apologizing.
The Other '80s Blade Runner Movie
Friday A/V Club: Ridley Scott wasn't the only director who filmed a Blade Runner in the Reagan years.
The First Amendment and Courts Interpreting Religious Terms
Prof. Michael Broyde (Emory) responds to my post from a few weeks ago.
Reviews: The Irishman and Terminator: Dark Fate
De Niro, Pesci and Pacino in Scorsese’s most melancholy mob drama, and Schwarzenegger returns in the latest installment of a super-played-out franchise.
Hannibal Buress on Bernie Sanders' National Rent Control Proposal: 'Wrong'
The actor and comedian is the owner of a three-unit rental property in Chicago.
NCAA Okays Paying Student Athletes, Republican Senator Immediately Wants to Tax Their Scholarships
Sen. Richard Burr's proposal would heavily deter any student-athlete from getting paid.
Meghan Daum Is Done with 'Cancel Culture.' But Is America?
The author of the provocative intellectual memoir The Problem with Everything takes on fourth-wave feminism and celebrates Gen X's "toughness."
Barack Obama Slams Woke Scolds and Hashtag Activism
"This idea of purity and you're never compromised, and you're always politically 'woke,' and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly."
Former Time Editor and CEO of Constitution Center (!) Wants To Cancel First Amendment, Pass Hate Speech Laws
Freedom of expression is under attack from politicians, activists, and, saddest of all, journalists who benefit most from it.
Dave Chappelle: Second Amendment 'Is Just in Case the First One Doesn't Work Out'
The comedian received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in D.C. this weekend. His acceptance speech airs on PBS in January.
Trump's Food Tariffs Hit U.S. Consumers Where it Hurts
New tariffs on E.U. goods mean we'll all pay more for tasty cheeses and delicious wines.
Review: The Current War: Director's Cut
Lighting up with Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon.
Canceling Halloween Is the Cruelest Thing To Do to Kids
Such actions remind kids that government authority is stupid, arbitrary, and worth fighting at every opportunity.
Billy Bragg Wants Three-Dimensional Freedom. But Can We Afford That?
In his new manifesto The Three Dimensions of Freedom, the veteran punk rocker calls out libertarians for focusing solely on economic freedom. Is his case worth buying?
