Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.

When the family dies, the nation follows.

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.