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Thursday, April 25, 2024
What's Happening with
Box Office Pro
?
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For quite some time I have found Boxoffice Pro 's comprehensive forecasts of upcoming and recently released films' grosses and their...
Daniel Bessner's New Article in
Harper's
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Daniel Bessner's "The Life and Death of Hollywood" is exactly what journalism ought to be but all too rarely is--a deeply inf...
Upton Sinclair on the Greeks
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Discussing the literary legacy of the ancient Greeks in Mammonart Upton Sinclair asks just "how much do we really admire Greek literat...
Alex Garland's
Civil War
: Some of the Critics' Views
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Recently remarking Alex Garland's Civil War the movie theater trade publication Boxoffice Pro characterized the film's promotion a...
Sunday, April 21, 2024
The
New York Times
, Right-Wing Publication
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Recently reading the Columbia Journalism Review 's analysis of pre-2022 midterm coverage of domestic affairs by the New York Times and ...
Media Biases: A Quantitative Analysis from the
Columbia Journalism Review
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Some time ago I extended my analysis of political centrism to the mainstream news media and argued that much of its conduct--and in particu...
What is a Superhero? An Attempt at a Definition
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What is a superhero? It does not seem unreasonable to define the term. Granted, a certain sort of person dismisses such attempts as bound ...
'90s Nostalgia-Mining and the Scandals of that Era
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Amid the exploitation of memories of the '90s by the pop culture industry these past many years some have seized on the scandals of the ...
Hiram Lee on O.J. Simpson
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In the wake of the media response to O.J. Simpson's arrest back in 2007 Hiram Lee published a piece titled "The Media's Obses...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Harry Turtledove's
Ruled Britannia
: A Few Thoughts
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For quite a number of years I was an avid reader of Harry Turtledove's alternate histories--running out and grabbing the latest installm...
On Cryptohistory, the Paranormal and William Shakespeare
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One of the oddities of contemporary culture is how persons who ordinarily find history dull suddenly become attentive when someone mentions ...
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"All Art is Propaganda," Somebody Said, Somewhere
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Looking back it seems that many an early twentieth century literary great claimed that "All art is propaganda." George Orwell seem...
Jane Austen and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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As I remarked once, for me the most worthwhile passage in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the satirical dialogue about the idea of...
In What Does Middle Classness Consist?
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We hear about middle classness all the time, usually from commentators desirous of dissolving the reality of inequality in an image of gener...
The Obscurantism of "Genius"
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I recall encountering a lengthy discussion of the concept of "genius" in a popular news magazine a long time ago ( TIME , perhaps)...
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