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You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an age of freedom By Nick Cohen Fourth Estate I raised the subject of Nick Cohen – who has written an incisive, depressing, and wonderful new book on censorship – over supper with some friends on Sunday evening. The topic of conversation had drifted from crappy remuneration –Continue reading “Lost for words”

Let’s dispense with a few misconceptions, shall we? No, of course it’s not racist to object to the late Professor Derrick Bell’s contributions to critical race theory. It’s not racist to object to the protest – essentially for racial hiring quotas at the Harvard Law faculty – depicted in the video released by Breitbart.com. NorContinue reading “Barack Obama, Derrick Bell, and the politics of hugging”

MOVIES: George Clooney’s quest to save the world one crappy movie at a time continues. A Spanish horror plays with light and dark with unsettling results. Ed Miliband turns his hand to secret agentry. And we learn that torture can be dull when the instrument is Woody Allen’s pontificating dialogue and much more fun whenContinue reading “Beware the ideas of Clooney”

MOVIES: A left-wing porno, secular superstitions, and a scrapyard slasher. Red State Red State is a seedy little porno set in a Middle America that exists solely in the minds of MSNBC producers; an intellectually barren land of churches and gun stores and people who voted for McCain. For people who seldom set foot outsideContinue reading “God, guns, and ghosts”

The Debt John Madden, 2010 Miramax/Marv Films/Pioneer Pictures USA/UK/Hungary/Israel 113 mins Shark Night 3D David R. Ellis, 2011 Incentive Filmed Entertainment/Next Films/Sierra-Affinity/Silverwood Films USA 90 mins Crazy, Stupid, Love. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, 2011 Carousel Productions USA 118 mins ***** The Debt Liberalism is naiveté convinced of its own sophistication and The Debt, directorContinue reading “Tiresome idealism”

The mood over at Democrat National Committee headquarters might best be characterised as ‘yippeeeeeeeeee!’ First, Mitt Romney volunteered to CNN that ‘I’m not concerned with the very poor‘. Now he has accepted the endorsement of Donald Trump, loon, for the Republican nomination for President. Reports that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was spotted doing the macarena atopContinue reading “Romney wins endorsement, loses credibility”

First we had Bush Derangement Syndrome; now it’s Bush Derangement Amnesia. Democrat National Committee flack Brad Woodhouse appeared on Martin Bashir’s show on MSNBC, where ratings are counted in gender studies graduates, to complain Republicans are mean to President Obama. Not like Democrats. They were inviting President Bush out to dinner and a movie everyContinue reading “Democrats and selective memory”

Newt Gingrich is a historian. An historian, as they say in the historian trade. Which only historians are allowed to join. But not you. You are not an historian. In fact, you are probably a Saul Alinsky radical or a member of the liberal news media. Nor did you work with Ronald Reagan. Newt workedContinue reading “Newt changes name to ‘Reagan’, GOP changes name to ‘lemmings’”