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 p
[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 movie, it is a pleasant but
[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 at this stage. No other show combines such lofty ambition
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
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) h
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 Aminder Dhaliwal’s
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 in which dough is deep-fried and then filled w
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” a