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THE YAM IS THE POWER THAT BE •    The right-wing commentariat has gone absolutely bonkers over the college kids with their microaggress...

I love Jerry Seinfeld, but if the kids don't dig him anymore , maybe it's political correctness, maybe it's not, so what? The hi...

Kia and I saw the Dominique Serrand production of Tartuffe at the Harman at a preview on Saturday. The show doesn’t officially open till M...

Shortly before announcing his candidacy for Mayor of New York, an esteemed American author proposed a plan for the city: he would give tax b...

Is the ending a joke? Actually, the whole thing is. Someone on Twitter said, as if surprised, that she was laughing more at the Mad Men f...

•     You may remember him for his later, lush 'n' luxe blues stuff, and that's all very fine. I love B.B. King, now passed ,...

First thought: Is Max Gail the new Brad Dourif? I understand the necessity of the VFW scenes and even enjoyed the details, like the low-re...

Friday I got Monday on my mind. •    Last summer Michael Webster took some photos at Coney Island and, as is usual with him, saw the s...

I hear Pam Geller held a Draw Mohammed event in Texas which drew some unwanted attention  (well, unwanted by normal people, anyway -- I'...

The very best thing in the entire episode, and maybe in the series, was the scene at the Wisconsin house, and the dark daughter lurking i...

The key moment was when Jim Hobart from McCann told the SCP partners they'd "died and gone to advertising heaven" and they all...

An "embarrassed" Ben Affleck admitted Tuesday that he asked producers of the PBS documentary show "Finding Your Roots" ...

Mathis is now my new favorite character, too bad he’s [SPOILER] fired. First of all, his inept use of Don’s line gave me my first belly laug...

Because Mad Men has such a moody house style, it was hard to recognize at first that this episode is a farce -- bitter, a little sluggish, ...

( Yes, we're back to Mad Men recaps . Patience, we don't have many to go. ) Don Draper's arc is beginning to look like Tony Sop...

One of the funniest things by two of the funniest people of all time. •    It is axiomatic that Jonah Goldberg can make anything worse,...

The Oscars should be about the simple joys of life -- gambling and vanity -- and not about politics, but I see Charlie Pierce has people ex...

(See previous reviews of American Sniper , Birdman , Boyhood , and The Grand Budapest Hotel .) The Theory of Everything. As I've said ...

•   I thought yesterday's First Things article -- about how, thanks to 50 Shades of Grey , BDSM will lead followers to the Church, the...

Haven't looked in for a while on Acculturated, the culture-war jump school for would-be Douthats that has given me much pleasure in the ...