Complaints about morality in movies - 1917: Click here: The New Republic Online: Movie Morals
Speaking of guns, a good shooting game for cat-haters: Click here: Clay Kitten Shooting / CKS 1
Elizabeth Drew, with a critical view of the Republican Revolution and Newt: Click here: The New York Review of Books: He's Back!
Another view of Putin - Is it weakness that is making him appear dictatorial?: Click here: The west gets Putin wrong Mary Dejevsky - openDemocracy
Re-posting this critique on Franks' Kansas book - it is too good (the review, not the book): "Kerry did, to be sure, have a message problem, but that problem was and is not just his, but his whole party’s. To sum up in a phrase: the Democrats are a center-left party in a center-right nation. They stumble over their message because if they clearly say what they most deeply believe it gets them in political trouble. Consider the contrast with their opponents. Republicans are conservatives who are proud to say so and who do not fear that saying so will hurt them. Democrats are liberals who, in a correct analysis of their political situation, assiduously avoid using the word that most commonly describes them. Their label discomfits them and their positions give them an edgy relation with the majority of voters." Read entire review: Click here: FT March 2004: The Public Square
