"The most interesting political phenomenon in Europe"
The Netherlands held local elections yesterday, and Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PVV) scored a major success. The PVV came in first in Almere (with 21.5 percent of the vote) and second in The Hague (with 16.9 percent). These are two of the country’s major cities.
Wilders decided not to put up a slate in other [...]
Roman Polanski’s "Pure Entertainment"
I recently complained about the tendency of filmmakers to deny the authorial intent of their films; it's one thing to make a truly ambiguous movie and then challenge the audience to discover for itself the meaning, but it's another thing entirely to simply deny the obvious point that you are making in your film.
We see another [...]
Ten Things He Hates About Us
Here the Ten Uniquements [thirteen no, wait -- fourteen!] that Barack H. Obama hates about the America he inherited — and how he plans to change all that. Obviously not every person in the United States will fit every instance of American exceptionalism on this list; in fact, some folks will see the entire [...]
