When Baseball Was Baseball
April 28, 2003 · Matthew Berke, Magazine, Books and Arts
The Last Good Season
Writer and Cultural Essayist
Matthew Berke
6 articles 1998–2003
Matthew Berke is a writer and editor who contributed essays and reviews to The Weekly Standard between 1998 and 2003. His pieces for the magazine covered film, baseball, and historical subjects, including the Holocaust. He has served as managing editor of the journal First Things.
Celluloid Candidates
November 20, 2000 · Matthew Berke, Magazine, Books and Arts
The issue of character may come and go in real politics, but it is the defining feature of movie politics. Nearly every conservative observer has complained about Hollywood's ideology in recent years -- but few of these observers seem to have noticed that liberalism appears in films not as an…
The Allies and Auschwitz
October 16, 2000 · Matthew Berke, Magazine, Books and Arts
The Bombing of Auschwitz
Lights, Camera, God I
April 24, 2000 · Matthew Berke, Magazine, Books and Arts
It's easy to ridicule Bible movies -- and fun, too, because in a sense, they're all blasphemous and silly. The piety is phony, and the titillation and violence hypocritical. The grandiloquent dialogue blended with modern slang is the stuff of high camp, and the miracles glorify cinematic technology…
Take Me Out to the Movies
April 17, 2000 · Matthew Berke, Magazine, Books and Arts
Baseball movies are seldom about baseball. For American cinema, baseball is a metaphor for something about the human condition: manhood, mortality, love, justice, reconciliation, second chances, dignity in defeat, the mystery of compassion, the value of friendship, simple grace, and impossible…
THE THINKING MAN'S GAME
May 25, 1998 · Matthew Berke, Magazine, Books and Arts
A. Bartlett Giamatti