Above: The student body at Carlisle Indian School, 1885, which evidently was not part of the Gilded Age I was pretty excited last night. PBS’ American Experience was premiering its new two-hour
I haven’t seen The Crown. My wife likes it but then she likes all of what I derisively call “That British shit,” by which I mean the boring, middlebrow movies probably starring Judi
For all the attention that, say, Chapo Trap House and that sort of leftist bro-garbage gets, we should probably be paying more attention to the vileness of Sinclair Media, which is forcing local broad
Smithsonian magazine revisits the political satire of 1960’s children’s show Rocky and Bullwinkle. I’ve been doing some research into children’s media these days (as you can
In defense of separating artists from their art. Joss Whedon’s former wife of 16 year years Kai Cole has revealed her ex-husband to be not a real feminist and actually a hypocrite in a guest blo
Strong female protagonists are so much more fun when there’s a strong female baddie for them to fight. Game of Thrones fans keep cheering about the positive turn for many of the show’s fem
Once upon a time a German sociologist from the Frankfurt School wrote a little thesis called “From Caligari to Hitler” about popular imagination being reflective of the mentality that gave
Here’s Patrick Stewart playing Lenin in a 1974 British TV production. In this scene, he meets Leon Trotsky and explains his version of Marxism.