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...Actually, far more people watch 24-an addictive comic book of a show-than the serious films. There is an indomitable hero, Jack Bauer, who saves the world from evil with stunning regularity. But Bauer is different from pre-9/11 action heroes: he routinely and rather zestfully tortures people, which almost always results in the acquisition of crucial information. Indeed, whenever someone says, "Jack, you can't do that," the only reasonable viewer response is "Oh, shut up! Go for it, Jack." The show's message is not very subtle: We can win this war, but only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Hollywood Gets Terrorism Right | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

Shutting down limbo also aligns nicely with the church's activism on abortion. On last week's Feast of the Holy Innocents--honoring children murdered by the evil King Herod--Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that the embryo is a "full and complete" human being, despite being "shapeless." If you are going to call a fetus' termination murder, then it seems somehow inconsistent to deny heaven to the blameless, full and complete victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Limbo | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

McEwan followed his 2002 masterpiece Atonement with this robust meditation on evil, fear and--unusually for him--happiness. His main character is Henry Perowne, a prosperous London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a handsome town house. He's a contented man, or he would be if his well-being weren't edged with the anxieties that trouble most of us after 9/11. On the single day on which this book takes place, with the streets of London jammed by a massive demonstration against the impending Iraq war, he crosses paths with a belligerent stranger. Before this haunting novel makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 Delights of Christmas | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

These disco-loving Scottish art-school punks spend much of their second album boasting of their badness. Singer Alex Kapranos is blessed with Mick Jaggeresque persuasiveness--Evil and a Heathen and I'm Your Villain would be musts on any syllabus of "Songwriting for Cads"--but he's also growing in ways that suggest depth. The fast songs have more than one musical thought (some even scoot past the 3-min. mark), while the slow ones have the courage to be pretty (Fade Together) and vulnerable (Eleanor Put Your Boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 Delights of Christmas | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...domestic spying policy. "Any public hearings on programs will say to the enemy: 'Here's what they do; adjust,'" he said. "This is a war. Of course, we consult with Congress and have been consulting with Congress and will continue to do so." Bush reacted with both the evil eye and the scolding finger when Peter Baker of the Washington Post asked: "If the global war on terror is going to last for decades, as has been forecast, does that mean that we're going to see, therefore, a more or less permanent expansion of the unchecked power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Comes Out Swinging on Domestic Surveillance | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

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