Scandalous Monogamy and Faithful Infidelity On eros and marriage. Marilyn Simon 14 Feb 2025 · 12 min read
The Great Unfinished Generational Epic George R.R. Martin, the Strauss-Howe theory of history, and the failure of the Baby Boomers. Jason Garshfield 10 Feb 2025 · 26 min read
Less Than Half āA Man in Fullā One of US televisionās most experienced and talented writers has made a mess of Tom Wolfeās second novel. Kevin Mims 13 May 2024 · 24 min read
93 Years of Shatner A tribute to an irrepressible TV starās ability to live long and prosper. Kevin Mims 22 Mar 2024 · 21 min read
Strange New Sci Fi If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first casualty of culture war. Johnny Schmidt 21 Sep 2023 · 17 min read
What a Survivalist Reality TV Show Can Teach Us About the Human Condition What makes 'Alone' endlessly fascinating and deeply moving is the mirror it holds up to our broken lives. Jacob Howland 5 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
Undiminished by Decadence I grew up in the 1960s and ā70s and Iām happy to report that, for the most part, television and mainstream cinema today are orders of magnitude better than they were in my salad days. Kevin Mims 20 May 2022 · 15 min read
āNot Necessarily Nice Thingsā Uncomfortable Truths in Succession We live in a world where the super-rich are often miserable. Part of the reason for this is that the heirs and heiresses to enormous fortunes amassed by their parents sometimes do very little with their own lives. Scott Newman 22 Jan 2022 · 8 min read
