CNN Tries Hard to Focus on the Issues, Fails

Right after wrapping up the CNN/YouTube Republican debate last night, Anderson Cooper proudly told viewers that CNN’s post-game analysis was "not going to focus on the horse race. Instead, tonight, we’re looking at the issues."

It was this relentless focus on the issues that produced comments like these from CNN’s panelists:

John King, CNN correspondent: "Another Read More

Exceptionalism Exposed: A Historical Tug of War

A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, by Thomas Bender. Hill and Wang, 368 pages, $26.

It takes a man with a certain singular talent to write a history of America empty of originality and devoid of insight. William J. Bennett is that man, and America: The Last Best Hope should be Read More

Exceptionalism Exposed: A Historical Tug of War

A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, by Thomas Bender. Hill and Wang, 368 pages, $26.

It takes a man with a certain singular talent to write a history of America empty of originality and devoid of insight. William J. Bennett is that man, and America: The Last Best Hope should be enough Read More

Figgis’ One Syncopated Night: Fuzzy, Beautiful, Comic

Mike Figgis’ One Night Stand , from a screenplay by Mr. Figgis, does not exactly shatter the Hollywood mainstream taboo against a black male kissing or even touching a white female, much less engaging in even simulated carnal congress with said female. For one thing, Mr. Figgis can hardly be described as mainstream in Hollywood Read More