Category: Reviews

There are lousy movies, okay movies, and good movies. And then there are classics. In my view, a classic movie is one that works well …

Since the days of Marx at least, scholars of various kinds have tried to delineate socioeconomic classes and use this class analysis to explicate political …

Since WGBH-NET’s Frontline gained its reputation as the most serious American documentary producer on airwave television, precisely by go- ing beyond conventional understandings, I was …

With its tongue-in-cheek subtitle and clever cover art, “No Applause – Just Throw Money: The Book that Made Vaudeville Famous” by Trav S.D. promises a …

Attitude – Many of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s (the post-Baby Boom, pre-Gen X generation) became politically aware through the music …

Branch’s “America in the King Years” trilogy began with the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winner “Parting the Waters,” which covered the period leading up to the …

Oliver Stone’s “World Trade Center” is the second in what will undoubtedly be a long line of box-office films about the terrorist attacks of Sept. …

Midway through my viewing of “An Inconvenient Truth,” this summer’s highly touted movie about global warming, I realized that I’d just paid $7 to attend …

Ann Coulter is all over TV promoting her book about”godless liberals.” The other night she was on “Scarborough Country” bragging that her book has ended …

Daniel Flynn, author of “Why the Left Hates America,” has written an entertaining new book about a number of influential intellectuals who, he believes, were …