Spencer Warren is a writer and cultural commentator who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2000. His pieces for the magazine covered film and cultural topics, including portrayals of the Soviet Union in cinema and the traditions of baseball broadcasting.
As a lifelong Yankees fan (my earliest baseball memory is Moose Skowron grounding out to end the 1957 World Series), I am, of course, overjoyed by the renewal of the Ruth-Gehrig-DiMaggio-Mantle dynasty. These Yankees -- whose fourteen consecutive wins in Series games (ended in game three of the…
Hollywood has a checkered record in its portrayal of communism. On the occasions when it has dealt with the subject, it has tended -- not surprisingly for a mass entertainment industry -- to reflect the public feeling of the times: solidarity with the Soviets during World War II, a general…