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Trump provides few GOP coattails when he’s not on the ballot
A mystery that haunted the Republican Party during the 2022 midterm elections, under President …
An undivided Kill Bill demands your undivided attention
The elusive original cut of Quentin Tarantino’s fourth and fifth films, known together as Kill…
Review of Haha, You Clowns
Over several decades, as Hollywood comedy has become mostly paint-by-numbers, Adult Swim, the…
How Tolkien built worlds
J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by…
Rob and Michelle Reiner deserved a better option to protect themselves
Narcissists and the single-mindedly ambitious thrive in Hollywood for the same reason that…
Rob Reiner, 1947–2025
Rob Reiner was the leading light of what could be called the “sitcom generation” of…
Review of The Architect of Espionage
Meir Dagan died in 2016, six years after his tenure as director of the Mossad, Israel’s vaunted…
The Trump Pencil Doctrine toward Christmas presents
Despite whatever misgivings I have about the current president, and I confess to having many,…
We must not go this way
In 2005, my Army unit searched an Afghan village for an enemy weapons cache. Our convoy…
False echoes of Weimar
Seven states seceded from the Union before James Buchanan left office in 1861, and within…
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