Roger Corman: A Filmmaker’s Filmmaker
An account of all the lives Corman touched, the careers he helped to jump-start, and the genres he pioneered would fill several books.
Jacob Bielecki
· 12 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 783 posts
George Orwell’s Error
Had he lived long enough to witness the fruits of liberal capitalism, perhaps Orwell would finally have accepted the failure of socialism.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 13 min read
Blood, Sweat, and Gasoline
The story of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster franchise, Mad Max.
Allan Stratton
· 21 min read
The Perfect Trifecta
The new attention economy will always privilege the lowest common denominator in performance art, as it does in everything else.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
Unbowed but Gravely Wounded
Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, ‘Knife,’ describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality.
Paul Berman
· 15 min read
The Problem with Utopias
The history of utopian fiction proves that we can’t even imagine a better world.
Ewan Morrison
· 15 min read
Imposing Order on Grief
Rob Henderson's 'Troubled' is a disjointed book, but provides valuable testimony to the importance of a stable childhood.
Iona Italia
· 23 min read
A History of Stunts
Ryan Gosling’s new film is a love letter to an under-appreciated art.
Allan Stratton
· 9 min read
Analyst or Moralist?
The increasingly political nature of cultural criticism does a disservice to the arts, to artists, and to criticism itself.
James Jackson
· 11 min read
Less Than Half ‘A Man in Full’
One of US television’s most experienced and talented writers has made a mess of Tom Wolfe’s second novel.
Kevin Mims
· 24 min read
Showdown in Champagne
In the tenth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the epic 451 C.E. battle that pitted Attila the Hun against Gaul’s Roman and Gothic defenders.
Herbert Bushman
· 18 min read
The Religious Instinct in a Godless World
The religious urge is born into nearly every child. And when we do not inherit a belief system, we build our own temples.
Megan Gafford
· 12 min read
How French Intellectuals Ruined the West
Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained.
Helen Pluckrose
· 18 min read
The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare Denialism
Against conspiracist trends, there is an obligation on defenders of a liberal society to uphold the integrity of its intellectual methods.
Oliver Kamm
· 25 min read
Disorder in Heaven
The end of greatness in heavyweight combat sports.
Alexander Blum
· 7 min read