Media Madness
The Corruption of Our Political Culture
Posted: Monday, February 4, 2008
Although there is widespread acknowledgment that the "mainstream media" is in crisis no one has explained the intellectual and moral causes of this crisis. James Bowman, media critic for The New Criterion, provides a scintillating and fast-paced anatomy of the mainstream media's self-generated demise.  [Full Story]

Honor
A History
Posted: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
From the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the 20th century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the history of honor was inseparable from the history of mankind. Today, it is still essential to an understanding of the Islamic cultures of the Middle East and the sense of grievance they often foster against the West, and especially the United States. But in the West itself, honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three quarters of a century at least.  [Full Story]