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Beethoven is a truly odd target for progressive critics, because his views on geopolitics are known to have been, by the highly regressive standards of his time, quite progressive.
And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.
"Cruising" faced protests and boycotts from gay activists and the LGBTQ+ community, but later became a cult hit.
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
The #MeToo era has been a time for all journalists to re-examine their professional standards.
Fred Willard was a kind of Holy Fool even among fools.
If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.
If courage had a face, it would be a slightly overweight, pasty British multi-millionaire drinking a pint.
When members of other communities are involved in mass violence, we rightfully are cautioned not to reflexively blame the community as a whole, and gaming should get the same treatment.
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.
The same is true of happiness and positivity. They’re not mere feelings. They are behaviors.
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.
The real-life Tolkien, who loathed trite allegory, would have cringed.