Melinda Ledden Sidak is a writer who contributed cultural commentary and essays to The Weekly Standard between 1997 and 2001. Her pieces for the magazine examined television, ethics, and broader cultural trends in American life.
What can make Tom Shales of the Washington Post, Caryn James of the New York Times, conservative columnist George Will, and even more conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg swoon in unison? How about a television show chronicling New Jersey mobsters filled with graphic violence, unremitting…
Home Comforts
The sexual counterrevolution is at hand. And contrary to the darkest fears of some, it is being led not be Bible-thumping fundamentalists or prune-faced matrons with beehive hairdos. It's being led by young women looking for romance.
In America, there is Ally McBeal, the surprise TV hit about a young, quirky, unmarried woman at an elite Boston law firm. In England, there is Bridget Jones's Diary, the bestselling comic tale of a year in the life of an unmarried working woman in her thirties. And between the two of them, they may…
Peter W. Morgan and Glenn H. Reynolds
Dana Mack