The Ohio man with my name is making me look bad, and I’m starting to take it just a little bit personally. It apparently isn’t a 2020s Christmas until Vivek Ramaswamy pours kerosene over his political future in the form of an essay where any valid kernel of a point he makes within it is […]
American Civil Rights is now a “right-wing” cause. It was apparently not enough that working out, liking hot girls, and eating red meat are all considered right wing. Nor was it enough that liking America, being patriotic, or flying the stars and stripes are also now right wing by default. In 2025 America, it is […]
It had to be done.
★★★ It’s a good thing this series is over so I don’t have to keep losing brain cells trying to figure out the title. Last I checked, this film’s predecessor was called Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. Now we have the eighth film, simply titled Final Reckoning, but which has, not to spoil […]
Birth of a Nation (1915) is no more racist than you are. 110 years after its debut onto the American screen, it seems that everyone apparently knows everything about this film from the title alone, whether they have seen it or not. Dare to mention the name of it, or the name D.W. Griffith, and […]
Last night, Pete Hegseth was confirmed to be the next Secretary of Defense. With three Republican Senators voting against him – two of them hailing from states that elected President Trump by overwhelming margins – this is the first confirmation process in several years that required the Vice President’s tiebreaker vote. As the confirmation process […]
When Donald Trump succeeds you as the President of the United States, you failed. To understand Trump beyond blindly loving or hating him requires understanding the context in which he emerged. Trump is and always has been a reflection of, and a referendum on, his contemporaries. Not just because he is, by nature, a mud […]
The following essay constitutes the second part of Godfrey Cheshire’s two-part masterpiece column “The Death of Film/The Decay of Cinema.” Just as with Part I, which you can find here, I own none of the words, but am merely re-printing them faithfully in honor of the quarter century since its original publication. These essays were […]
The following essay is not my own. It is merely a faithful transcription of a landmark pair of essays by Godfrey Cheshire, formerly of the New York Press. It was a two-part column, now collectively known as “The Death of Film/The Decay of Cinema.” I own none of the words written here, but I am […]
★★★ “Flawed as it is…” No sermons, no lectures, and no statements; but in Juror #2, Clint Eastwood empathizes with the American system of justice. Every time I saw something that otherwise would have annoyed me as a lawyer, I liked the film more for the personal ethics it applies to the political system. When […]
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