A collection of 17 posts
If you’re not already familiar with the casus belli that ignited the Gaza war, watching the fifth season of ‘Fauda’ will be good for you, but it will also be bad for you.
The rise, fall, and rise again of one of the 20th century’s most important journalists.
American individualism and the western, from Fred Zinnemann and John Ford to Larry McMurtry and Taylor Sheridan.
The #CancelColbert saga in 2014 established the paradigm for countless hashtag controversies that followed.
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.