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Leaving Fifteen
When Americans travel abroad, indispensable items include passports, luggage, and loud and abrasive manners. “Ugly Americans” also take with them
Talking Like an Economist
For several years economists have longed for a “Goldilocks” economy, an economy that is neither too hot nor too cold
A White (Lie) Christmas
On the outside, Christmas cards are so innocent. What could be more cloyingly sweet than a depiction of a calm
Movie for Make Laugh
The current Iraq War, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, the larger conflict between the West and the Muslim world—these things
The Ugly Housing Bubble
By now almost everyone has heard of the housing bubble. For years real estate has been “frothy” in the U.S.,
Unfunny Girl
In the movie “Yentl,” Barbra Streisand plays a young woman who wants nothing more than to study the Jewish scriptures
Watch Out, Angelina
Last week, news outlets around the world announced that Madonna was reinventing herself, yet again. Although she has not abandoned
Primetime Segregation
Imagine a television show so beyond the pale of good taste that Pat Buchanan, the Bob Jones University Faculty of
No News is Good News (Sort of)
Whatever you want to say about George W. Bush, he certainly has the whole “vision thing” that his father so
Girl Interrupted
Charlotte Smith published a volume of poems entitled “Elegiac Sonnets” in the year 1784. While Smith did not get a