A collection of 219 posts
A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.
A look back at J.G. Ballard's ‘Crash’—one of the the 20th century’s greatest and most disturbingly prophetic novels.
Werner Herzog’s new memoir provides a look back on the magisterial and occasionally maddening career of a cinematic visionary.
The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.
Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.
Robert Pirsig’s insufferable cult novel about philosophy and bike maintenance turns 50.
Why the Left must take human evolution seriously.
Even in rights-based and law-bound democratic societies, people tend to find new things to struggle over.
The payday-loan debate revisited.
Peter Benchley’s ‘Jaws’ turns 50.
There is a better way to protect Ukrainian sovereignty and security—and long-term Western interests—than NATO membership.
It is time for the EA movement to rediscover humanism.
The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.
Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th.
A new alternative to Wikipedia has arrived. Can it succeed where others have failed?