Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events, by Murray Kempton (Times, $16). In a journalistic world rife with canned cynicism, Murray Kempton stands apart. He is concerned with honor, “a commo… ...

Iranian helmer Amir Naderi's ("The Runner") fascination with the perversities of American society finds new ground, literally, in "Vegas: Based on a True Story," a pointed ...

The era of Gesture Liberalism is at hand. It may be more amusing than consequential. Americans who exercise consumer sovereignty wherever President Obama still tolerates it are constantly disappoin… ...

Sometimes when you stand on the high floor of a building and look down, it’s terrifying—not just because of the conscious fear of falling, but the unconscious desire and urge to jump. This has ...

The last time the Congress bought this malarkey, even the jobs argument turned out to be false, as General Electric’s CEO Jeff Immelt admits. The companies bringing the dough back actually laid ...

For much of human history, the idea of freedom had little meaning. This was because life was, as Thomas Hobbes put it, “poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” ...

Hurricane Katrina has laid bare the peculiar perversities of the bureaucratic mind: its utter commitment to niggling rules, its inability to take risks, its failure to think on the fly. Leadership ...

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The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was Swan Lake. The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the… ...