THE NEW REFORM CLUB

John J. Miller of National Review has put together a nice overview of Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Barbarian" tales , for th...

The esteemed editor of this fine blog saved me from my ignorance. I had written a piece about an article of Stanley Crouch thinking he is a ...

I have a new paper on the effects of federal price negotiations for pharmaceuticals, as advocated by many of the Democrats (and others) for ...

Stephen Murmer has found a new way, perhaps a defining 21st century way, to suffer for his art . Mr. Murmer is an art teacher at a public hi...

Recent exchanges here at The Reform Club have given your Curmudgeon to think, for the first time in a long while, about the gray and misty ...

Rev. Jack Wall is leaving Old St. Pat’s in Chicago after 24 years.  He found four people when he arrived, now there are 3,000 .  It hosts t...

Mel Gibson's Apocalypto , reviewed earlier on this site , opened strong this weekend, leading the movie box office race with a take of $...

The AP writes quite approvingly that former Chilean strongman Gen. Pinochet is morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, abs...

Soon it will be Christmas Day. . . . Mary Ann gave me communion this morning with serious face. She did not greet me as if I had just arrive...

After almost fifty years of promising, and failing to deliver, "no child an unwanted child," the acolytes of Margaret Sanger have ...

Upon hearing that Mel Gibson was filming a story set at the end of the Mayan empire and performed in an ancient foreign tongue translated i...

The Achilles heel of most conservative cultural critics is their tendency to characterize repugnant works of pop culture as establishing tha...