Conscience-Challenged: Conservatives' Hollywood Complex

Conservatives have gerrymandered their way to a virtual lock-down of American government and culture. They control all branches of the federal government, most state legislatures and governorships. The overwhelming majority of newspapers are right-of-center bland, and Hollywood, for all its vaunted liberalism, is still essentially the place Louis B. Mayer created—a venal money machine whose producers are about as principled as a pound of cardamom. But it irritates conservatives to no end when, despite the cultural muck and political imbecility of the nation as a whole, a few voices manage to buck the trend and score a counterpoint or two. This year’s Oscars are a case in point, fleeting and feeble though it may be. Read the rest...