Andrew Leigh

Mike Flynn recently wrote a cri de coeur on Big Government asking why conservatives have failed to move back the needle on government spending despite the profusion of conservative think tanks, foundations, policy shops, grass-roots organizations, and sundry other pointy-headed

Mike Flynn recently wrote a cri de coeur on Big Government asking why conservatives have failed to move back the needle on government spending despite the profusion of conservative think tanks, foundations, policy shops, grass-roots organizations, and sundry other pointy-headed

If you could control the culture or the government, which would you choose? It’s kind of a trick question. Because if you control the culture, the government will follow. (And no, the converse is not true – unless your government

Fox News’ Red Eye has established numerous firsts for a cable news program: First talking newspaper, first intergalactic correspondent, first openly gay host. But the show’s most ground-breaking achievement, the one that will rank it right up there with The

Before Season 6, my wife was a die-hard “Lost” fan. For five years, during the appointed hour, I wasn’t allowed to so much as breathe. And heaven help me if I had to walk past the TV screen. Suddenly, my

An extraordinary film just came out on DVD which couldn’t be more timely. It’s about a fiercely outspoken, beautiful woman trapped in a country rapidly descending into socialism, with the government steadily ratcheting up control over all aspects of life.

September 10, 2010 The Nobel Prize Committee announced today that it is awarding the Prize in Medicine to Jimmy Duncan, a senior at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, for getting a 97 on his bio-chem final. “The

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” – Michael Corleone, Godfather Part III True story: As a young man just out of law school, I was consumed with politics. I even went to work on

In 1987, Andres Serrano submerged a small plastic crucifix in a glass jar of his own urine and called it Piss Christ. Not to be outdone, Chris Ofili daubed elephant dung on a painting of the Virgin Mary. While some

So, John Nolte didn’t much care for the new “Harry Potter” movie. If memory serves, he didn’t care for movies 1-5, either. He admits, however, to never reading the books. This is a fatal error in appreciating the “Harry Potter”

If you’re a history buff and you’ve got HBO, then have I got a movie for you: Into the Storm. (And if you’re cable-less, add it to your NetFlix queue.) Yes, it’s made-for-HBO, but it’s from the John Adams/Band of

A frequent cavil by participants in the Angels & Demons debate is, “It’s just a movie!” (Or, “It’s fiction!”) The implication is that the filmmakers made this movie just so they could tell a ripping good yarn. Stipulating for the

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to. – Malcolm Muggeridge I’m a fan of Ron Howard. I’m also a Roman Catholic. So when Howard recently defended his upcoming film, Angels and Demons, on

People are still buzzing about Barack Obama’s apparent “dis” of Gordon Brown last week, when the British prime minister paid his first official visit to the new president at the White House. Brown presented Obama with the following gifts: •

Mickey Rourke is thinking right now: If only my wrestler character was gay….

Well, it was a good run while it lasted.

Another actor half-circle jerk.

Haven’t you seen Larry King Live [sic]?

They managed to ruin one of my favorite parts of the Oscars. Just so they could show off their fancy-pants graphics and big-screen TV collection.

It comes as no surprise that the liberal blogosphere did a collective spit–take over the National Review’s recent list of the top 25 conservative films of the past 25 years (full disclosure: the Buckleyites invited me to comment on one

True story: Bill Gates — yes, that Bill Gates — released a swarm of mosquitos at a technology conference. He did it (or so he claims) to demonstrate how malaria spreads. Reportedly, he waited a minute or two before he

Yesterday the Guardian, a left-leaning British newspaper, ran a column accusing Pixar of the unforgivable crime of hypocrisy. When it comes to Toy Story and WALL-E, the Guardian has a point. After all, any movie that preaches the evils of

Let me start by laying my cards on the table: I have no personal beef with evolution. I believe evolutionary theory can be perfectly compatible with religion. And I sincerely (if perhaps naively) hope this doesn’t devolve (get it?) into

I had the privilege of interviewing Rep. Gillibrand for a documentary currently in the works. Barely knew who she was at the time, but by the end of the interview, I knew she was going places. Smart, sharp, personable —

With its stubborn refusal to nominate Dark Knight, the second-highest grossing movie of all time, for Best Picture, the Academy seems determined to fade into irrelevancy. This year’s Oscars will be the lowest-rated ever. How do I know? For one

The great actor Patrick McGoohan has passed away. He starred as the title character in the cult TV series “The Prisoner,” but is probably best known to contemporary audiences as King Edward I, aka Longshanks, in one of my favorite

After 9/11, a flood of articles proclaimed the death of irony and cynicism. That lasted about two weeks. Jon Stewart and company were back on the irony beat faster than you could tell a dumb Bush joke. (Are we really

If you’re like me (and who isn’t?), you’ve been distracted today, and not very productive. (Well, that’s me every day, but I digress.) Instead, you’ve been counting down the minutes to 5:15 PM (PST) tonight, when the BCS college football