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English lessons: the hard-fought battle against bilingual education has paid dividends for assimilation
I WAS VISITING a typical southern California public high school, one in which the student body is close to three-fourths Latino, when it dawned on...
American Conservative, The, 03/23/09 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
French lessons
[The Class] [The Class] "THE CLASS," a slice-of-life drama tracking a year in an inner-city Parisian junior high school, has been greeted...
American Conservative, The, 03/23/09 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
The Martyr of Castro Street
LAST NOVEMBER, Barack Obama's name on the ballot brought to the California polls unusually large numbers of fans of Tyler Perry's "Madea" movies,...
American Conservative, The, 03/09/09 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
On the ropes
"THE WRESTLER" is a slow-paced, predictable, but highly effective drama about a lonely former pro-wrestling star trying to hang on a little longer...
American Conservative, The, 02/23/09 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
Ex-president's question time: Frost/Nixon
ONE OF THE ODDITIES of the movie business is how films for grown-ups, such as "Frost /Nixon," are now held hostage by that rather adolescent...
American Conservative, The, 02/09/09 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
Through a glass darkly
LIKE A GREAT baseball player's career, Meryl Streep's three decades in the movies can be depicted in a few statistics: 14 Oscar nominations, four...
American Conservative, The, 01/12/09 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
Too big not to fail
THE PREFAB national epic "Australia," a sprawling romance set in the desolate Northern Territory during World War II, represents a risky change in...
American Conservative, The, 12/15/08 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
Unbearable lightness: Happy-Go-Lucky
"HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, " five-time Oscar nominee Mike Leigh's "quirky" and "offbeat" comedy about a young London schoolteacher who is, yes,...
American Conservative, The, 12/01/08 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
Unreal estate: how average Americans got caught in the mortgage racket
Memorial Day Weekend, 2005 Memorial Day Weekend, 2005 "So, you kids have been engaged, what, two years now?" Travis asks. "That's great. No...
American Conservative, The, 11/17/08 by Steve Sailer · More from publication -
Oedipus tex
[W.] [W.] GIVEN THE LIMITATIONS of Oliver Stone's biopic about George W. Bush (modest budget, rushed production, lack of memoirs by the...
American Conservative, The, 11/17/08 by Steve Sailer · More from publication
