Harry Stein [31 titles]

1. What Mad Men Gets Wrong
   The fifties, a decade of forgotten loyalty, honor, and patriotism
   Autumn 2009
2. The Boys Who Cry Racism
   Will Jimmy Carter and company expose the hollowness of the tired old charge?
   15 October 2009
3. Beck Bashing
   Glenn Beck is good for America—and bad for the Left
   18 September 2009
4. Unteachable
   The racial-grievance industry won’t learn anything from the Gates affair.
   27 July 2009
5. Selena Roberts Has No Shame
   The reporter who broke the Alex Rodriguez steroids story smeared the Duke lacrosse players.
   13 February 2009
6. All Hammer, No Nail
   Though brave, An American Carol is more polemic than entertainment.
   9 October 2008
7. The Anti-Barbara Boxer
   Plain-spoken, gun-toting Sarah Palin is the antithesis of the liberal woman politician.
   30 August 2008
8. The Racism Card
   If Obama loses the election, it won’t be because of bigotry.
   29 August 2008
9. May 1968: 40 Years Later
   Six City Journal authors recall a spring that shook the world.
   Spring 2008
10. Racial-Preference Ballots Go National
    Initiatives in four states could shape the presidential election.
    16 April 2008
11. Obama, Less Than Audacious
    The real discussion on race is still to come.
    19 March 2008
12. No Conservatives, Dammit!!
    The Times hires William Kristol, and the illiberal liberals go nuts.
    2 January 2008
13. Take No Prisoners
    For Bob Shrum, politics is war, and anything goes.
    28 September 2007
14. The Kingdom Gets the War on Terror Right
    Peter Berg’s new film dares to portray Americans as the good guys.
    21 September 2007
15. Gore Imbalanced
    The former vice president’s new book is itself an assault on reason.
    3 August 2007
16. Charles Pickering Gets the Last Word
    A maligned civil rights hero, the changing South, and the future of the courts
    10 June 2007
17. The Range of Pistol Pete
    Pete Maravich’s influence on basketball is still alive today.
    9 March 2007
18. Now the GOP Is For Affirmative Action?
    Abandoning principle may not even be smart politics.
    Autumn 2006
19. A Preemptive Surrender
    Michigan Republicans are AWOL in the fight against racial preferences.
    Spring 2006
20. Justice to Elia Kazan
    When Elia Kazan, one of the twentieth century's great American theater and movie directors, died two years ago, the obituaries almost all struck the same sour note.
    Autumn 2005
21. Laughing at the Left
    Bruce Tinsley, creator of the conservative comic strip Mallard Fillmore, remembers feeling stunned when the fan letter showed up in February 1998. After all, his strip--featuring a right-leaning TV newsman or, more accurately, newsduck--was still in its relative infancy.
    Summer 2005
22. Why Jon Stewart Is All the Rage
    To say Jon Stewart enjoys an adoring press is like saying Bill Gates has a few bucks. In story after glowing story, the boyish 42-year-old host of Comedy Central’s hit fake newscast, The Daily Show, and author of the best-selling fake history text America (The Book) comes off as a lighthearted, twenty-first-century Diogenes: a fearless truth teller in an age of shameless pandering.
    Spring 2005
23. Daytime TV Gets Judgmental
    Voyeuristic and exploitative, yes, but it tells right from wrong.
    Spring 2004
24. The Race-O-Meter
    How much further can the academic Left sink?
    Winter 2004
25. Culture War on the Links
    For the Times, liberal advocacy is par for the course, even in the sports pages.
    2 June 2003
26. How I Was Smeared
    When I dissented from the liberal line on race, the Texas papers depicted me as a racist. They had complex motives.
    Autumn 2002
27. The Feminists’ Big Lie
    . . . and the women it harmed.
    3 May 2002
28. Earth to Ivory Tower: Get Real!
    We’ll lose the war on terror if the political and cultural Left succeeds in sapping our resolve.
    Autumn 2001
29. New York’s Tabloid Treasure
    A friend of mine reports that a few days into the extended post-election agony, he found himself on a plane out of LaGuardia beside a forty-fiveish Upper West Sider.
    Winter 2001
30. Feminists and their Enemies
    Back in July, the New York Times published a book review that surely had jaws dropping on both sides of the cultural divide.
    Autumn 2000
31. Pulling the Plug
    One July day a few years ago, my ten-year-old son Charlie and I boarded the early morning train at London's Paddington Station, heading for Bath.
    Summer 1998

I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to A Republican

by Harry Stein