Michael Medved, Author at Imprimis

War Films, Hollywood and Popular Culture

Michael Medved | May 2005

One of the important factors, it seems to me, is that the popular culture has changed fundamentally in the way that it portrays the military and its mission

New Millennium: What to Take from the Past, What to Leave Behind

Michael Medved | September 2000

Look around the world of the new millennium: nationalism has never been more vital, more intense, more impassioned.

Television News: Information or Infotainment?

Michael Medved | July 1999

We allow television to be our main source of news, and this leads to three critical distortions in our lives.

Saving Childhood

Michael Medved | September 1998

In every corner of contemporary culture childhood innocence is under assault.

Protecting Our Children From a Plague of Pessimism

Michael Medved | December 1995

In every ethnic group, children with immigrant parents perform significantly better in school than those whose parents were born here.

Hollywood’s Poison Factory: Making It the Dream Factory Again

Michael Medved | November 1992

Popular culture is viewed now as an implacable enemy, a threat to their basic values and a menace to the raising of their children.

Popular Culture and the War Against Standards

Michael Medved | February 1991

Ironically, it is sometimes those films that are the most profoundly, irredeemably awful that make my job most stimulating.

The movie industry’s resounding endorsement of The Last Temptation of Christ is only the latest and perhaps the most grotesque illustration of the overt and pervasive hostility to religion and religious values that has taken root in Hollywood.