Staff Reviews
John Paul Stevens' Faint-Hearted Liberalism
The retired justice's new memoir reveals an uneasy relationship with the Bill of Rights.
Sucking in the American Century
A stunt novel tracks the rise of the state and the decline of the country.
The Ides of March and Human Centipede II
A political thriller from George Clooney, a horror flick from hell
Lochner Isn't a Dirty Word
Correcting the cartoonish vilification of a libertarian Supreme Court decision
Colombiana and Our Idiot Brother
Zoe Saldana goes into action, Paul Rudd goes with the flow.
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