Politics
AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
Books
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
September 19, 2025In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
Thrillers
The Walking Dead Season 2 Premiere: Suffer the Little Children
September 18, 2025Officers Friendly and Crazy to the rescue. (Photo credit: Gene Page/AMC) Despite the fact that AMC’s...
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: What Remains (Season 1, Episode 4)
September 18, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's fourth episode, What Remains.
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Garden Party (Season 8, Episode 4)
September 18, 2025A recap/review of Garden Party, The Office's fourth episode of its eight season.
Dance
Dance Review: NYCB, Works by Jerome Robbins
September 18, 2025Lauren Lovette, in particular, is fascinating to watch in this piece: she almost passively lets the...
Movies
Movie Review: The Big Year
September 16, 2025There are no surprises. The payoff of each plot arc is completely predictable. The fun of...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist
September 16, 2025The family takes a trip over the frozen sea to a lighthouse. While there, the 6...
Movies
Movie Review: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
September 16, 2025Instead of jumping right into centipeding, Six spends the majority of the sequel allowing us to...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
September 16, 2025The revealed mystery of “those across the river,” how they came to be and what they...
Movies
Movie Review: Take Shelter
September 16, 2025Jessica Chastain, also terrific in The Tree of Life, turns in another remarkable performance here. As...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: Lotto (Season 8, Episode 3)
September 16, 2025A recap/review of The Office's Lotto (Season 8, Episode 3)
Movies & TV
Terra Nova Recap: Instinct (Season 1, Episode 3)
September 16, 2025A recap/review of Terra Nova's second episode: Instinct
Theatre
The Weekly Listicle: Method In Our Movie Madness
September 14, 2025The practice of blessing mass entertainment with the bard's prose confers a kind of loftiness upon...
Video Games
The Golden(Eye) Rule of Enemy Design!
September 14, 2025Last time the committee was called to order, we touched upon perhaps one of the biggest...
Writers
Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany
September 14, 2025At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen...
Dance
Dance Review: NYCB, Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom
September 14, 2025But as Ocean's Kingdom joins a growing pile of choreographic train wrecks (a drab revival of...
Television
Doctor Who Recap: ‘The Wedding of River Song’ (Season 32, Episode 13)
September 14, 2025I loved the opening of this episode, with the steam train running through the Gherkin and...
Movies
Movie Review: Machine Gun Preacher
September 14, 2025What do you call a two-hour movie with forty-five minutes of wholesome, inspirational tearjerking and a...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Celebrates The End of the World
September 14, 2025A look at the best post apocalyptic movies of all time in honor of Take Shelter...
Movies & TV
The Office Recap: The Initiative (Season 8, Episode 2)
September 13, 2025A recap of the second episode of The American Office's Eighth Season called The Incentive
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
Art
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
Movies
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
October 25, 2026Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Fourth Wall
Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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