Raritania

About a decade ago George Monbiot published a piece titled "An Ounce of Hope is Worth a Ton of Despair," in which, reflecting ...

Imagine for a moment a scenario in which we were told that it is as certain as it is possible for anything to be certain that a massive aste...

What passes for a discourse about the world's environmental problems is notoriously pervaded by " doomism ," and attacks on co...

Thomas Malthus, of course, was an English clergyman remembered today principally for his work in economics--which few seem to understand, in...

Those who study International Relations theory are certain to learn of "realist" theory, and to encounter characterization of the ...

The story goes that the beginning of the end for the supermodel was Linda Evangelista's much-cited quip about not getting "out of b...

I suppose that spending as much time considering the '90s as I have it may be inevitable that I have come around to saying something of...

If 2024 was full of movies with mediocre grosses it was also the case that the number of really costly movies was more than usually limited-...

At the start of 2024 the expectation was circulating in the media that bad as 2023 had been for Hollywood ( with an epic string of big-budge...

When we speak of an adaptation of, for example, a play by William Shakespeare or a novel by Jane Austen it is considered eminently respectab...

When a "successful" individual has benefited from personal advantages such as coming from a wealthy, powerful and well-connected ...

If I found E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime a less than wholly satisfying work it still had its points of interest, not least in its portrayal o...

Variety recently published an article noting that a good many recent cinematic hits in North America have underperformed in the internation...

Looking ahead to the Deadline Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament--the magazine's ranking of what movies were not the highest grossing...

In some years the entertainment press positively buzzes with talk about the chances of film releases in "the Oscars race" from ear...