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What is a Superhero? An Attempt at a Definition
'90s Nostalgia-Mining and the Scandals of that Era
Hiram Lee on O.J. Simpson
Harry Turtledove's Ruled Britannia: A Few Thoughts
On Cryptohistory, the Paranormal and William Shake...
"All Art is Propaganda," Somebody Said, Somewhere
Jane Austen and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
In What Does Middle Classness Consist?
The Obscurantism of "Genius"
Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor and Japanese Work Culture
Are Bloggers Wasting Their Time Tinkering with The...
Never Underestimate the Suckerdom of Bosses
The Unusability of the Internet and the Taming of ...
The End of the Cyber-Frontier
Nostalgia as Protest--and its Limitations
Of "Optimism"
The Supposed End of Work, and the Drivel Spoken Ab...
The Beginning of the End of the Cult of the Good S...
Does it Make Sense to Self-Publish a Book in 2024 ...
Politics, Art, Hypocrisy
Tom Clancy: Another View
On Irony
"Is This Blog Written by an AI?"
"Are You a Robot?"
The End of Fan Fiction?
"Paying Your Dues"
When Should a Blogger Call it Quits?
Peer Review in the Age of Automated Scholarship
The Crisis of Academic Publishing
Of the Term "NIMBY"
Of the Word "Pundit"
Writers Write About Writing
Those Lives in Which Chance Plays No Part
Review: Harold Coyle's Trial by Fire
William Thackeray's The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Fe...
A Few Thoughts on Stendhal's The Red and the Black...
The Degeneration of Classical Education
Of "Caveat Emptor"
An Education Befitting a Fourteenth Century Gentleman
Of Bitterness
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Mystery Science Theater 3000
The False Image of the Professoriat's Gentility
A Few Words on Keisuke Kinoshita's Army
"It's Only a Movie": Further Thoughts
"It's Only a Movie"
Is News Avoidance Surging?
Len Deighton's Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objecti...
The Wearisomeness of Les Claqueurs
William Gibson on "Toughness"
"Brutally Honest"
"Tough Love"
Another Crappy Celebrity Bio Headed Your Way!
"It's Called . . ."
David Walsh Meets Andrew Sarris
"What is an Independent Filmmaker?"
A "Harvard Man" in 1959
My Other SSRN Listing
Are People Going to Watch More Old TV?
The Return of the Rerun?
Considering Fertility Rates in South Korea
Of "Common Sense"
The Limits of "Hopescrolling"
On the Word "Doomscroll"
Is the Internet Making People Dumber? (Short Answe...
Average Shot Length, Beyond the Action Movie
Power, Responsibility and "Personal Responsibility"
The Criteria for Claqueurs
Ted Gioia's Odyssey as a Facebook User
The Irony of Jaws 19
"Realism" in a Misanthropic Era
The Distastefulness of Slang
'90s Nostalgia: A Personal Note
Nostalgia: A Few Words
Things Composition Instructors Do That Annoy Stude...
School as Hoop-Jumping, and the Failure of Education
What Ever Happened to the Debate About Euthanasia?
The "'80s Jerk," Again
The Truth About the Experts and the Public
Of Intergenerational Conflict and Military Recruit...
Making Sense of the Twenty-First Century: A Few Th...
The Impossible Writing Tasks the Suits Demand of W...
Selling Authors, Not Books
Josiah Bounderby and the Aspirational Society
Are the Poor Lonelier Than the Rich?
"It's Only a Hobby"
"Sending Everyone to College," Hard Reality, and t...
"Not Everything's About You!"
Is the Cult of Celebrity in Decline?
The Ephemeralism of What Passes for Mainstream Soc...
Narcissism as a Privilege, Not a Right, and the Cu...
Who is Allowed to Love Themselves?
On "Self-Pity," Again
Of Moralizing
The Wearisomeness of Advice About "Your Health"
The Las Vegas Story: A Few Thoughts
What TV Show Gets Referenced Most in Our Online Di...
Why is "The End of Science Fiction" Such a Tough I...
On the Strange Afterlife of the Superhero Comic
"You Can't Win an Argument With an Idiot"
Revisiting the Question of a Film Version of The H...
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