The Humble Art of Living: The Films “Ikiru” and “Living”
Thanks to the energetic oversight of the woke thought police, cultural appropriation—once, I would...
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Author: Carl C. Curtis
They Are All Narcissists Now: Are Politicians Necessarily Self-Absorbed?
Roger Kimball is a very intelligent man. The ten months out of the year that I receive my copy of...
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All Creatures Season 3: Siegfried Who?
All Creatures Great and Small on PBS is now in its third season. Would that it were its last;...
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The Ghost of Christmases Past Gives His “Bests”
As Deal noted in his article “My Five Best of 2022 — Books, Movies, TV, and Golf Shoes,” it’s...
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The Film ‘Operation Mincemeat’: Chopped a Bit Too Finely, But Still Tasty
The 1956 film The Man Who Never Was, directed by Ronald Neame and starring Clifton Webb, Robert...
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A Modern Tale in a Brave New World
My wife was getting overweight and had been steadily for many months. This may be a common enough...
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Sleepers Awake! Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen
Are you a citizen? The question may sound strange, and, surely, for the last 140 years of our...
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All Creatures Great & Small 2: More Is Less
As I noted last February in my review of the new All Creatures Great and Small on PBS Masterpiece,...
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Baptiste, Season 2, Spoiled Rotten — A Review
I was really looking forward to Baptiste, season 2 on Masterpiece. If you haven’t heard of him,...
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The Appalling Wokeness of Amazon’s “Holiday Style Heroes”
To those of us whose brand of Christianity is of the more traditional persuasion, December 25th...
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