In Medias Res

Last week's "Beat It" may be about as popular and influential a music video as was ever made during its heydey, but I would ar...

The reaction I seem to be reading everywhere (try here and here and here ) is that Obama's speech last night was, above all, "a...

So last week the National Review gang has come out with a list of "the best conservative movies" , focusing just on the past 25 ye...

I was out pretty much all of last week. It started with seven of us--six students, ages 18 to 25, and one faculty advisor, age 40--driving t...

Well, if I'm going to tip my hat to the big, famous, popular videos, how can I ignore Michael Jackson's masterpiece, arguably the mo...

...and he's pretty good at it too. I graduated with my doctorate in political theory from Catholic University of America in 2001; my di...

Well, today is a Friday the 13 th , an unlucky day for some, but a lucky day for my wife and I, since we were married on a Friday the 13 th ...

The latest round of "end of conservatism" discussions, prompted by last week's TNR piece by Sam Tanenhaus , and which I talke...

1) The stimulus bill passed the Senate , and I'm glad. I'm glad because in a world of high finance and high debt, of credit and mort...

I find it somewhat silly--and so it probably appears to people who know me well--that I'm sitting here at my computer, trying to follow ...