James Bowman

Resident Scholar

Mr. Bowman is well known for his writing on honor, including his book, Honor: A History and “Whatever Happened to Honor,” originally delivered as one of the prestigious Bradley Lectures at the American Enterprise Institute in 2002, and republished (under the title “The Lost Sense of Honor”) in The Public Interest.

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James Bowman is a Resident Scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Mr. Bowman is well known for his writing on honor, including his book, Honor: A History and “Whatever Happened to Honor,” originally delivered as one of the prestigious Bradley Lectures at the American Enterprise Institute in 2002, and republished (under the title “The Lost Sense of Honor”) in The Public Interest.

Among the other publications to which he has contributed are Harper’sThe Public InterestThe Washington PostThe Wall Street JournalThe Daily and Sunday Telegraph of London, The Weekly Standard and National Review.

He has worked as a freelance journalist, serving as American editor of the Times Literary Supplement of London from 1991 to 2002, as movie critic of The American Spectator since 1990 and as media critic of The New Criterion since 1993. He has also been a weekly movie reviewer for The New York Sun since the newspaper’s re-foundation in 2002.

Mr. Bowman received B.A. degrees from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge in England, where he also did graduate study and received an M.A. in 1979.

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Blood and Wine

James Bowman

Blood and Wine is another of those collaborations between Bob Rafelson (director) and Jack Nicholson (star) which promises to be…

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SubUrbia

James Bowman

If you could legitimately take, as some reviewers seem illegitimately to have done, the final words of the Pakistani convenience…

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Chasing Amy

James Bowman

Chasing Amy is another slacker movie and thus another piece of redundant evidence that America has become far richer than…

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Fools Rush In

James Bowman

Fools Rush In by Andy Tennant offers us mildly engaging characters and an even more mildly witty screenplay but cannot…

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Gridlock’d

James Bowman

Gridlock’d is yet another attitude film, this one by Vondie Curtis Hall and starring the late Tupac Shakur and Tim…

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Ai No Corrida (In the Realm of the Senses)

James Bowman

In the Realm of the Senses is a Japanese film made twenty years ago by Nagisa Oshima. At the time…

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Hamlet

James Bowman

Now we know who put the “Ham” in “Hamlet.” Who else but Kenneth Branagh, whose new, four hour movie of…

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La Cérémonie

James Bowman

You have to start watching right at the beginning of La Cérémonie, Claude Chabrol’s latest addition to one of the…

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Cosi

James Bowman

Cosi by Mark Joffe is the perfect Australian movie, containing as it does opera, insanity, coming of age and that…

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First Strike (Jackie Chan’s First Strike)

James Bowman

Jackie Chan’s First Strike, directed by Stanley Tong, is another example of the only kind of action film I seem…

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People vs. Larry Flynt, The

James Bowman

The People vs. Larry Flynt is one of Hollywood’s more typical propaganda films—which is to say one which makes it…

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Evita

James Bowman

I can’t say much about Evita by Alan Parker, based on the stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim…

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