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The Free Market May Sack Kimmel Again
Last month, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” reemerged from cancellation with a ratings jump and social momentum. His midnight honeymoon, however, is already over. Kimmel made incendiary comments over…
Acknowledgments | Power Line
Steve Hayward identified the source of my approximation of my Buckley quote yesterday in “A fool’s house.” Steve kindly advised that the quote appears in Buckley’s essay “Notes Toward an Empirical Definition of Conservatism,”…
What John Oliver gets wrong about Bari Weiss and CBS News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwCDRmWiypQ John Oliver is the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight, which is one of the funnier news and comedy shows in the vein of progressive liberal eviscerates conservatives and Donald…
A fool’s house | Power Line
I recall the late William F. Buckley, Jr. bragging on his ability to identify liberals. Take him to a party, blindfold him, spin him around, take off the blindfold, and he could unerringly point out the liberals. It’s not…
Graham St. John’s ‘Strange Attractor’ explores Terence McKenna’s life and ideas
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna, by Graham St. John, The MIT Press, 548 pages, $35 A large crowd filled the Scottish Rite Temple in downtown Los Angeles to hear the man who first synthesized LSD…
Campaign Pro Reacts to Katie Porter’s Viral Interview Meltdown
Many Americans likely had no idea who Katie Porter was until a clip of the California gubernatorial candidate went viral this week. Porter served as a member of Congress representing the Golden State from 2019 to 2025, when…
Ares’ is a bad movie, but a great Nine Inch Nails music video
The funniest part of Tron: Ares comes at the beginning. There's a screenplay credit. Apparently, someone actually wrote this movie. There's a separate story credit too, which is even harder to fathom. Sure, things…
‘Too Much’ is a rom-com for the TikTok era
Lena Dunham's new Netflix series Too Much is a meandering, if still highly watchable, rom-com. The show chronicles 30-something Jessica, who relocates to London after a devastating breakup. The frumpy, chaotic Jessica…
A Love Tale’ retells Bram Stoker’s classic novel
Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Tale is a conservative interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. The film begins in 1480 with Prince Vladimir and Princess Elisabeta of Romania. Vlad is called by the Church…
Are Americans Addicted to Conflict?
The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie is a libertarian podcast that goes deep with the artists, entrepreneurs, politicians, and visionaries who are defining the 21st century. Today's guest is Lionel Shriver, the…
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