Category: Reviews

One of the many advantages of having a child in one’s life is that it provides an excuse for going to kid flicks. So on …

During World War II, a group of students at the University of Munich calling themselves the White Rose be- gan to protest Nazi atrocities. At …

In “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” Lisa See creates a convincing memoir of an intimate friendship between two women, Lily and Snow Flower, raised …

With “Inside Man,” Spike Lee successfully makes the transition from “black film director” to simply “film director,” creating a tense and entertain- ing bank robbery …

For those of us who are committed to limited government, the Bush administration has been a major disappointment. It isn’t just the huge deficits or …

David Boaz praises “V for Vendetta” on his blog (March 29, 2006), say- ing, “the movie deals with”some classic libertarian themes: the rapaciousness of the …

James Surowiecki, who writes a column on finance for the New Yorker, has put together an engaging, well-documented book revealing the fact that decisions made …

At the 2006 Academy Awards presentation on March 5, the audience witnessed a shocking event, one that I thought could never happen: Three 6 Mafia, …

Margaret Schabas, a professor at the University of British Columbia, is a historian of the philosophy of science who has previously written on the mathematization …

In late 2001 Fox launched a new series called “24,” a daring experiment that became its biggest dramatic hit. The concept was intriguing: each episode …