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Fellow, New America Foundation and TCS Columnist

James Pinkerton is a Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. A contributor to Fox News and columnist for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times, Pinkerton is also a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today. He is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University and served as an aide in both the Reagan and first Bush administrations.
Articles by James Pinkerton
The Importance of DIY Movies
21 Sep 2006
It's a weak crop of commercial movies this late summer/early fall. But those with other points of view are making their own movies since it's never been easier.
Snuff Cinema
14 Sep 2006
Five years after 9-11, it's apparent that we all aren't getting along. Don't believe it? Check out the latest in leftwing film.
To Live and Die in Toronto
08 Sep 2006
The struggle to shape world public opinion -- who's good, who's bad, who's winning, who's losing, who deserves to live, who deserves to die -- continues with escalatingly deadly intensity.
Bill and Karl Take a Walk in the Woods...
25 Aug 2006
Two aging Baby Boomers meet for a walk in the woods. The two men have long been recognized as the godfathers of their respective political parties; they share the same mystique. These secret conversations are strictly off the record, but this being Washington, nothing stays secret forever...
The AIDS Boomerang
18 Aug 2006
Lefty politics have a way of boomeranging, generating unintended consequences of the bitterest kind. A report from the Toronto AIDS conference.
Why Political Heretics Are Worse Than Infidels
11 Aug 2006
To understand American politics today, you have to understand why heretics are worse than infidels.
Natural Born Snoozer
08 Aug 2006
"World Trade Center" takes an enormous subject and makes it seem small. And the fault lies not in the stars, but in the director. Jim Pinkerton on Oliver Stone's enormous artistic failure.
Revisiting WARNO
02 Aug 2006
More than five years ago, I wrote -- here in TCS no less -- that the civilized nations of the world needed to get together, as an international alliance, to thwart the threat of missiles. We need a World Anti-Rogue Nation Organization: WARNO.
Vicious Circle
28 Jul 2006
If violence is not your thing, if you prefer colors other than black, brown -- or blood red -- then this is one "Vice" to be shunned.
World War What?
25 Jul 2006
So is it World War Three yet? One of the smartest figures in American politics says that it's here. Here are five points to ponder about world wars, and rumors of world wars.
Be the One
17 Jul 2006
The idea of the One Big Thing resonates throughout our entire culture, through the history of technological advancement. Jim Pinkerton on the larger significance of a medical breakthrough.
That Other Gore Movie
07 Jul 2006
If you show me a movie genre that's tired and worn out, I'll show a movie genre that's due for a comeback. "Dead Man's Chest" opens this weekend.
Give the Devil Her Due
06 Jul 2006
There's a reason the left is doing so poorly in politics -- it's the metapolitics, stupid. Just look at Hollywood.
Zeitgeist in Tights
30 Jun 2006
Americans can see Superman and be reassured: The world might not like us as much as it once did, but the world still needs us.
The Ultimate Lifeboat
27 Jun 2006
Society now can be undone not only by a malignant majoritarian mob, but also by a techno-malcontented few. What should we do? Stephen Hawking channels Edmund Burke.
Reality Tivoed
23 Jun 2006
If imitation is the sincerest form of film-ery, then "Click" rates as an earnest attempt by Hollywood to woo its audience back from increasingly marketshare-grabbing games.
Getting Hollywood's Drift
16 Jun 2006
In a film where cars are the stars, capitalism, heterosexuality, and, yes, unrestricted energy consumption come away stronger for this excursion into car-crazed, drift-happy Japan.
In Media, Rex
15 Jun 2006
If war is too important to be left to generals, then news is too important to be left to reporters. Governments, including ours, have their own ideas, and they want to share them with us, the people. Meet the "SOMSM": the state-owned mainstream media. Jim Pinkerton explains the future of global media.
Deadly Politics on Film
12 Jun 2006
A new South Korean export examines how the growth of foreign militaries and technologies could make the world a scarier place... even before we get to the most dangerous trend of all.
Exit Stage Left... or Right?
06 Jun 2006
Hollywood is ostensibly liberal. But what will you find beneath the bleeding-heart veneer?
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