Staff Reviews
A Trick of the Mind
Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.
Cowboys & Aliens and Crazy, Stupid, Love
Daniel Craig battles aliens, Steve Carell wins the weekend.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
A grand and fitting finale to the cinematic saga
The Great Basketball Swindle
A riveting new documentary takes on New York's shameful eminent domain abuse
Margarine Bootleggers Sent to Federal Prison
...and other stories of what happens when the government plays with your food.
David Mamet's Conversion Story
The Pulitzer-winning playwright explains his turn to the political right
The Book on Mormons
A brilliant new musical from the creators of South Park both mocks and admires religion.
Man vs. the State
Economist Walter E. Williams reflects on his long career battling Jim Crow, big government, and liberal orthodoxy.
The Spook Racket
Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supposedly supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead
Notes from the Underground
How the underground press of the 1960s revolutionized the American media