‘The Hellfire Club’ Burns Up Readers’ Patience
CNN host Jake Tapper’s new novel, ‘The Hellfire Club,’ is a regrettable Washington thriller full of cardboard characters, absurd plotting, and relentless historical exposition.
Watching The 1950s ‘What’s My Line?’ Will Challenge Your Assumptions About Humanity
Just by watching an old game show, we meet a way of thinking about the world that is noticeably different from our own.
No, George Clooney, The 1950s Race Riots Were Nothing Like Charlottesville
There is a severe danger in superimposing the past on the present for political opportunism, especially when there aren’t real parallels.
For Summer Flicks, You Can’t Beat The 1953 POW Comedy ‘Stalag 17’
‘Stalag 17’ is a weird name and a weird movie. You’re in for a great surprise: an Oscar-winning all-American movie utterly without imitation.
Is Choosing To Stay At Home Sustainable For Women?
Our nostalgia for the 1950s blinds us to the reality that the stay-at-home mom was always a historical anomaly. As the economy declines, so may this option. What can families do then?
Yuval Levin Lightens Charles Murray’s Predictions Of America’s Doom
Precisely because he gets so much right, it’s easy to miss the things Charles Murray gets wrong about America’s current crisis. Yuval Levin to the rescue.
Dear Kim Kardashian: Showing Off Your Naked Boobs Is Boring, Not Brave
Kim Kardashian is fifty years late to the sexual revolution.
Lana Del Rey, Conservative Icon
Lana Del Rey finds her American Dream in romantic companionship, glorying in America past as a way to preserve it forever.
How Many Valedictorians Today Could Write This 1957 Commencement Speech?
The author, who recently passed away, gave this commencement speech at her graduation in 1957. It is reprinted here with the permission of her family.
The Frantic Feminist Fifties Phobia
For the average feminist of today, one of the greatest threats to a woman’s well-being and individual self-determination is a “return” to “the 1950s.”
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