Lisa Schiffren is a conservative writer and commentator who contributed cultural and political commentary to The Weekly Standard between 1997 and 2015. She is known for her work as a speechwriter for Vice President Dan Quayle and has written on topics ranging from pop culture criticism to foreign affairs. Her pieces for the magazine included film reviews, cultural essays, and reflections on figures such as Afghan resistance leader Abdul Haq.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if the conservative fantasy of taking over the culture came to pass? What if one major movie studio, and a few popular actors, comedians, writers, directors were conservative?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
On February 4, 2005, an Italian journalist named Giuliana Sgrena was captured and held hostage by a group of angry Muslims in Iraq. After a month of none too covert negotiating by the Italian government, she was released to a high-ranking member of the Italian intelligence service. How many Western…
ABDUL HAQ, the legendary Afghan resistance commander, was captured and hanged on October 25 by the Taliban while on a mission inside Afghanistan to contact local Taliban leaders who wished to defect. In the war against the Soviets, Abdul Haq had led large-scale operations in and around Kabul. In…
Despite negative reviews in all I the New York papers, the night I saw An American Daughter, the latest Broadway offering by the Pulitzer-prize- winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, the audience was packed with visibly high-powered, sophisticated Manhattanites. They bore little resemblance to the…