(W)hy it keeps coming as a total shock when works of popular culture that celebrate the military rather than pretend it doesn’t exist blow away shows about narcissists picking lint hair out of their belly buttons and whining about their careers.

◼ ‘Sniper’ and ‘NCIS’ success shows how out of touch media is - John Podhoretz/NY Post

In just two months, “American Sniper” has become the first movie in ages to rise to the level of cultural phenomenon — in part because its success caught everybody by surprise.