1+ hour, 22+ 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…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (490+ words) With the radio positioned above the refrigerator, WCBS Newsradio 88 was the soundtrack of our kitchen." For much of the 20th century, AM radio news was the country's heartbeat. CBS was the gold standard." It was the home of Edward R. Murrow's rooftop…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (251+ words) Reading aloud has become an act of punk rebellion. Something like listening to a recording of The Clash, flirting in a coffee shop at noon, or sitting down to watch John Wayne's entire filmography. Rich Lowry complains that children no…...

2+ day, 52+ min 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…...

2+ day, 52+ min ago  (251+ words) As if The Simpsons weren't eerily predictive enough, from Trump's descent down an escalator to the COVID-19 pandemic, things got increasingly spooky with their prediction coming true with the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship. (READ MORE: Hantavirus Aboard the…...

4+ day, 1+ 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, 16+ 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, 1+ 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, 1+ day ago  (554+ words) One of the biggest names in news has gone silent. So has one of the biggest mouths on Earth, as I can attest. Cable News Network founder Ted Turner passed away Wednesday in Florida, at age 87. Doctors diagnosed him in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (682+ words) The esteemed editor of this journal, Paul Kengor, wrote a fitting R. I. P. for Ted Turner, the billionaire media mogul who died recently at the age of 87. He was a man of many contradictions, as Kengor pointed out " "an innovator, an entrepreneur,…...