By Larry Kaufmann This is coming a little late, I know, but I’d like to second the sentiments from Daniel Crandall’s excellent article published last week in The American Culture.  Conservatives, libertarians, and classical liberals need a place on the cultural playing field.  Books, movies, television, and music – in fact, our entire quality of life – would be more vibrant and exciting if people on the right actually participated in the cultural marketplace instead of simply castigating it. But as novelist Andrew Klavan has said (in a passage quoted by Crandall) the right “can’t win back the arts unless we love them.  Too many conservatives boast of their philistinism. ‘I haven’t seen a movie in years,’ they brag, as if that were some sort of achievement. Too many others seek to clip the wings of artistic imagination, demanding that artists turn away from anything disturbing or violent or sexual, which is to say from much of life itself.” As an omnivorous consumer of pop culture, I’m perhaps guilty of loving the arts too much.  So, in the interests of highlighting worthy cultural artifacts released in the last year, this article presents my picks for the “Best of 2010” in

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