A collection of 137 posts
Most of us are distant spectators to the roped-off paintings that line the museums inside our aesthetic imaginations. Some of the pieces have been removed; others don’t have appropriate labels.
Scott Z. Burns’s political thriller ‘The Report’ is a careful examination of the CIA’s interrogation methods.
Viewed as a romantic comedy, a bromance, or a musical, White Christmas may seem like just a lightweight piece of Hollywood fluff. But considered as a hymn to post-war America, it acquires additional depth.
The Rise of Jordan Peterson constructs a kaleidoscopic narrative that enables the viewer to look at the same sequence of events in several different ways.
The key to reducing violence amongst any demographic is in ascertaining the specific attributes of violent individuals.
The term “cancel culture” has become hotly contested of late. Critics say it is indiscriminately used to describe different degrees of mass opprobrium produced by transgressions that range from the trivial to the criminal. Now, while mob justice is never a particularly good idea, it is certainly true that some
Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.
Right now, I’m maybe most spooked by how a living, breathing cultural memory is seeming to evaporate.
Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended.
Listen onSpotify Toby Young discusses the conservative manifesto buried just beneath the surface of Avengers: Endgame with Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium. Aaron wrote an essay recently about the final instalment of the Avengers saga for Quillette.
If you haven’t seen Endgame yet—or if you take comfort in the delusion that Marvel is “woke”—stop reading now.
It seems fitting that twins (1) come in two types, (2) are fascinating at two levels and (3) enhance understanding of human development in two ways.
In a cultural moment that has seen reputations destroyed by a single tweet, each transgression can become the entirety of a person’s character.
Yet, this is the sort of hysteria used to justify yanking away the wonderful fun of watching Disney princess films. Remember fun?