Sight and Sound released its preliminary poll findings of the top 10 films in history. The big news is that Citizen Kane was finally booted from its 50 year roost at the top by Vertigo. These are both great films, but I wouldn't vote either...
Author: Erik Loomis
What happens when 2 influential right-wing loons decide to declare war on each other? Let's get the popcorn ready! If Frank Gaffney gets his way, Grover Norquist won't be at.
Five years ago today, the I-35 bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, killing 13 people. The state of our infrastructure remains abysmal, with future disasters likely. We could fix all of these.
So Inside Higher Ed ran basically the worst article ever written about how to be a good graduate student, by Katy Meyers, Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University: Knowing wine used to be a skill that you were raised to...
Chris Marker, one of the world's greatest living filmmakers, died today. Best known for his science fiction short La Jetée, in my view the greatest science fiction film ever made*,.
So SEK put me in an unusual position in his post on so-called "Social Darwinism." My professional persona is very interested in his arguments. SEK present a compelling argument, at.
I guess Bryan Caplan isn't the only member of the plutocracy channeling Gilded Age Social Darwinism. See Mitt Romney speaking about the differences between Israelis and Palestinians today. Noting the economic difference between Israel and Palestine, Romney stated: "If you could learn anything from the...
Who knew that Humpty Dumpty was the secret Koch Brother? A fantastic class war film from 1936 by the great Dave Fleischer.
Bryan Caplan is a terrible person. Now you might say that I am too mean to the Koch-funded George Mason economist. After all, he might not beat his dog. But.
On this date in 1970, the United Farm Workers achieved its greatest victory, ending its five-year grape boycott after growers agreed to a contract, the first in the history of California farm labor. Farm workers lived pretty tough lives. The itinerant nature and physical stress...
Atrios gets at fundamentals: It isn't quite as extreme, but there are a lot of similarities between now and the Iraq debate. All of the Cool Kids know how fucking.
SEK can talk about current films that make billions of dollars all he wants to; readers of LGM know that the movies that really matter are the ones I like..