Raritania

As those who have seen me play the game of "How much will this movie make?" before know, I prefer a quantitative approach based on...

All too predictably the presentist, hot take-spewing idiots of the entertainment press have seized upon the undeniable colossal success of S...

Back in August I had something to say of the bullishness of the entertainment press' crowing over the box office receipts as it looked f...

The usage of the word "smart" has long seemed to me unsatisfactory as a descriptor of the powers of an individual human mind. If ...

The writings Victor Klemperer produced during his time under the Third Reich would seem to today be unjustly, and not at all innocently, neg...

Readers of a certain generation may remember the actor Werner Klemperer, best known for playing Colonel Klink in the classic sitcom Hogan...

I recently had something to say of the alleged "crisis of masculinity" --the moral panic evident among both the cultural "tra...

Those of us who have been writing and putting out our work online by way of blogs, self-published books and other such material have been wa...

That an item presented without the backing of a major platform or promotional budget could be discovered, and by engaging the interest of re...

There seems no denying that the web has become much less text-based and much more audiovisually-based where the "content" publishe...