The world is, alas, full of rich, middle aged white men who are convinced that the fact that someone, somewhere, once criticized them or implied that they don't possess an absolutely objective perspective on every topic under the sun constitutes the worst possible form of...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
[This post has been reprinted from my blog. It contains spoilers for all of Captain Marvel.] There isn't really that much to say about Captain Marvel in itself. As a.
It occurs to me that I have not introduced the good people of.
[This post has been reprinted from my blog.] The Good Place is the best show on television. I don't even see how there could be a debate...
Byron Tau's supremely unfortunate tweet, responding to the footage of a student at Covington Catholic High School jeering and mocking Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder, with cries of "Build the.
I have something of a love-hate relationship with reading currently. It used to be that my reading was completely unmoored from the current state of the publishing industry. I read.
As the year winds to its close and TV critics have tried to sum it up, a narrative has emerged. 2018 was the year when TV (by which I mean mostly scripted, narrative TV, the kind I pay attention to) hasn't so much Peaked as...
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction constructs its social and political futures. For our last column of 2018, our topic is.
This is kind of a weird thing to say, since I've watched every Spider-Man movie made in the last sixteen years, but I don't consider myself a huge fan of.
Tomorrow evening is the first night of Hanukkah, which in Israel has become primarily associated, on a culinary level, with sufganiot, a type of doughnut...
This thread has been getting some attention on twitter, so I thought I'd repost it here. It's something I've been thinking about a lot, as the conversation about "good" and.
Welcome back to A Political History of the Future, our series about how science fiction imagines the political and social organization of its future societies. This time, our topic is.