Modern Art: When a Banana is Just a Banana
The man who hung fruit on the wall and called it art has been one-upped by a fellow creative.
Michael Warren Davis
December 12, 2019
Why Our Society Suffers from ‘Mass Derangement’
A hierarchy of victims, tripwires everywhere, no forgiveness---it's a recipe for madness in any era.
Shane Miller
December 11, 2019
Jimmy Hoffa is at the Bottom of a Pit in New Jersey
So claims a longtime crime writer and Teamsters biographer who says he warned Robert DeNiro 'The Irishman' was blarney.
Mark Perry
December 10, 2019
Peter Fonda: We Got ‘Easy Rider’ Wrong, Man
The late actor disagreed that his film was about a lack of freedom in 1960s America. Quite the opposite.
Bill Kauffman
December 5, 2019
‘The Irishman’ Remembers When Unions Gave Capitalism Its Ballast
The latest Scorsese film recalls when organized labor pulled Americans up, before big capital busted them down.
James Pinkerton
December 4, 2019
Woke Parenting Eats Its Own
'OK Boomer': teach your children not to respect traditions and eventually they'll turn against even your watered-down ones.
Casey Chalk
December 4, 2019
Gahan Wilson Stood Tall Among Subversive Cartoonists
His BS meter enabled him to slyly project the idiocy of politicians, the war state, and the elite.
James Bovard
December 2, 2019
Who Heeds America’s Shadow Children?
All life is precious, but more kids are waiting for adoption and a third who age out of foster care end up homeless.
Ericka Andersen
December 2, 2019
Walker Percy Ponders the Joy and Risk of Naming the World
In newly published material, the late author complains that linguists can explain lots of things about language--except meaning.
Micah Mattix
December 2, 2019
Who Exactly Is The ‘Parasite’?
This new genre-bending film from South Korea delivers a sophisticated upstairs-downstairs with a macabre twist.
Eve Tushnet
November 29, 2019