2+ hour, 25+ min ago  (174+ words) Last week, I wrote a piece here, The Hollywood Strain, citing Christopher Nolan's folly in sacrificing The Odyssey to the woke gods. The story has exploded since then, prompting outrage akin to when Bud Light chose Dylan Mulvaney for a…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (439+ words) It is an extraordinary cultural moment. For centuries, educated writers struggled to eliminate weak grammar, awkward transitions, clich's, and mechanical prose. Now, they may deliberately introduce such flaws as camouflage. The race is on not merely to write well, but…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (184+ words) Many things changed after the pandemic. The butterfly effect now applies to face masks. Ornithologists fall ill aboard a cruise ship adrift in some place most people couldn't even point to on a map, like Cape Verde, and suddenly people…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (270+ words) Nobody should watch HBO's Euphoria." The moral of this story could easily be that our culture has become so incredibly degraded that this is what passes for entertainment. We could be producing great art and stories designed to inspire us…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (357+ words) Crichton's 1994 bestseller Disclosure depicted the dark side of the now Hollywood sacred cow, the Girlboss, at the time rising on both sides of the screen. In the book, the happily married protagonist's hot ex-girlfriend " the Male Gaze not yet having…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (480+ words) An Accidental Death By Peter Grainger Union Square & Co. , 315 pages, $18 paperback" But for the Grace By Peter Grainger Union Square & Co. , 329 pages, $18 paperback" That Grainger's creations languished so long as e-books and audio books only is why Britain's"Financial Times…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (56+ words) Forgetting has its own clock, and it's infallible, and it only heals what needs to be healed. READ MORE from Itxu D'az: The NASA Chief's Ears Are Endless, and Kimmel Isn't Funny Bullet Points and Blind Spots Climate Change Scientists…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (616+ words) The following article was written by AI. This, of course, is not true. Every single word, thought, and point you're reading is entirely mine, and always will be. Artificial Intelligence cannot match human pensiveness. But it can provide an increasingly…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (282+ words) Aliens are in the news again. Not because we've recently spotted some new craft that looks like it might just belong to an all-wise extraterrestrial being, but because conspiracy theorists and rabbit-hole-diving hobbyists are excited about a slew of documents…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (885+ words) SACRAMENTO, Calif. "California officials are known for their grandiose sense of importance. For instance, they pitch their climate change and technology regulations with an understanding that our market is so large that anything they do will have a nationwide impact....