Ross Douthat writes a very stimulating review on Judd Apatow’s latest conservative film disguised in dick jokes, The Unfunny Truth, in which he concludes that “it’s the first Apatow film in which you get punished for your sins…but it’s what makes this film his best work yet.” 

Douthat also breaks it down with international moral comparisons here:

More than most Westerners, Americans believe — deeply, madly, truly — in the sanctity of marriage. But we also have some of the most liberal divorce laws in the developed world, and one of the highest divorce rates. We sentimentalize the family, but boast one of the highest rates of unwed births. We’re more pro-life than Europeans, but we tolerate a much more permissive abortion regime than countries like Germany or France. We wring our hands over stem cell research, but our fertility clinics are among the least regulated in the world.

In other words, we’re conservative right up until the moment that it costs us.