The media October 1995
Taking the Nineteenth
On the blinkered outlook of modern feminists.
Department: “The media”
The media September 1995
Hollywood values
On capitalist entertainment.
The media June 1995
Amerika revisited
On the polemical response of the liberal media to the Oklahoma City bombing.
The media May 1995
Faking it
On the Oscar presentations & other moments of televised insincerity.
The media April 1995
Getting our bearings on Barings
On the media’s insistence on reporting the story of the Barings bank scandal as a morality tale about class in Great Britain.
The media March 1995
A conservative conspiracy?
On the recent criticisms of contemporary conservatism by Michael Lind.
The media January 1995
The elections explained
On the media pundits’ various analyses of the Republican landside in the mid-term elections.
The media December 1994
Graded on “The Bell Curve”
On the critics’ response to Charles Murray & Richard Herrnstein’s book on I.Q. & class structure in American life.
The media November 1994
The game as played in Burnsville
On Ken Burns’s PBS documentary Baseball.
The media October 1994
Nothing if not “cynical”
On what President Clinton calls the “fault-finding mentality” of the American press.