A collection of 13 posts
Jason Zengerle’s new book about the degradation of a once-gifted writer and broadcaster also illustrates the downward trajectory of the entire news industry during the same period.
Is telling lies about someone after they die okay if that someone was a very bad person?
Sex, money, murder, and the decline of Mike White’s wildly popular HBO series ‘The White Lotus.’
Angertainment capitalises on ordinary democratic conflict by selling it back to us as spectacle.
What the Korean hit gets wrong about capitalism and right about government.
On eros and marriage.
George R.R. Martin, the Strauss-Howe theory of history, and the failure of the Baby Boomers.
One of US television’s most experienced and talented writers has made a mess of Tom Wolfe’s second novel.
A tribute to an irrepressible TV star’s ability to live long and prosper.
If truth is the first casualty of war, then perhaps good fiction is the first casualty of culture war.
What makes 'Alone' endlessly fascinating and deeply moving is the mirror it holds up to our broken lives.
I grew up in the 1960s and ’70s and I’m 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.
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.