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Film Review: The More Things Change, the More He Stays the Same

The Music Never Ends. Featuring Clint Eastwood, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Martin Scorsese, Arthur Penn, Bill

Mar 17, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
TNI's Interview with Michael Shermer

Mar 17, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Thriller: Lee Child and the creation of Jack Reacher

Lee Child is the bestselling author of what Publisher’s Weekly calls “arguably today’s finest thriller series.” Its huge, and hugely popular

Mar 17, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
15 Mins
Film Review: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

As redemption tales, boxing movies more than hold their own alongside war pictures, Bible epics, and tough-guy teachers who turn around

Mar 17, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 mins
Book Review: Talkin' 'Bout that Generation

When I’m with friends, a favorite party drinking game is watching “Behind the Music” on VH1. The show usually profiles some graying rock

Mar 17, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
4 Mins
Film Review: Flag Desecration

Clint Eastwood is arguably our greatest living motion picture director. Thirty-five years after his directorial debut in the Hitchcock

Mar 17, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins
Book Review: The Praise Singer

Critics are of two sorts, it has been said: Those who make you want to read the work they are analyzing; and those who make you want to

Mar 17, 2011
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7 Mins
Much Virtue in "If"

July/August 2007 -- In recent columns and articles, I have found it useful to differentiate between bourgeois individualism and Romantic

Mar 17, 2011
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8 Mins
Film Review: "The Rock" of Gibraltar

Who really wants to see another feel-good movie about a tough educator who takes on both the most violent juvenile delinquents and “the

Mar 17, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 mins
TV Review: A Voyage Across the Final Frontier

In 1969, after working as a high school intern at Goddard Space Flight Center on the Apollo 11 moon landing, I became an astronomy major in

Mar 17, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
9 Mins
Out of Control: The Case of Percy Bysshe Shelley

December 2007 -- The first question to ask upon starting up a vehicle should be: “Where are the brakes?” The first question to ask upon

Mar 17, 2011
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7 Mins
TNI's Interview with Vince Flynn

Vince Flynn has written many compelling yarns, but his own story may be the most inspiring. It’s the tale of a kid from a big Midwestern fam

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Book Review: The Green-Eyed Monster

One of the book’s best chapters is “Under Capitalism Man Envies Man; Under Socialism, Vice Versa”—a title that calls to mind the pithy jabs

Mar 16, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
7 Mins
"Hatred of the Good"

I have not read Epstein’s book, but he apparently sees envy as a feeling that varies only in degree, from a mild wish to have what another..

Mar 16, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
2 Mins
The Gospel According to Jack Bauer

April 2007 -- A war of moral values is being fought on an unlikely battlefield: on the sound stages of “24,” the Emmy-winning Fox TV....

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
5 Mins
Public Nudity--Exposed!

January/February 2008 -- The town of Brattleboro, Vermont is a self-proclaimed avant-garde mecca. The busy downtown business district is rif

Mar 16, 2011
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Amanda Hall
9 Mins
Book Review: A Century of "Liberal Fascism"

With America committed to war overseas, an American president (who many consider to be racist) suspends vast swatches of American liberties

Mar 16, 2011
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Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
7 Mins
TV Review: Civilisation: a Personal View by Sir Kenneth Clark

Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the early 1960s, famously called television a “vast wasteland.” He wanted

Mar 16, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Mins
Film Review: Men in Blue

As the opening title montage for We Own the Night closes, the film cuts to a familiar nightclub scene that places the audience in the

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
5 Mins
Film Review: Lost in a Labyrinth

One consequence of Hollywood’s descent into the morass of mindless formula-driven folderol was the rise of independent filmmakers. They’ve

Mar 16, 2011
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Robert L. Jones
6 Mins

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