Box office failures are a staple in the film industry, but every so often, a movie tanks so badly that it causes one to wonder whether Hollywood is drastically misjudging the country’s pulse and interests.
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Many graduating students may just want a simpler life where they can work, afford to live, and enter life-giving relationships.
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Perhaps it isn’t coincidental that this kind of longform writing is having trouble at the same time that the online news cycle gets ever more ephemeral.
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Many people on social media pushed back against the claim that Atwood’s famous, bestselling book has in any way been “banned.”
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The book may not present neat answers to our problems, but it presents a vital picture of what it looks like to cherish life and hold onto to the inherent value of human life.
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Weiss had resigned over her frustrations with censorship and bullying in legacy media. Those who laugh last laugh best.
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As trust in legacy journalism erodes, more time and energy will get funneled into independent media and X isn’t playing fair here.
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Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities.
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Can journalistic objectivity ever be regained in today’s fractured, highly online culture? Also, can comedians make jokes about everybody, not just one side?
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People are likely to encounter online pornography even if they don’t actively seek it out. That’s how pervasively adult content inundates the internet.
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Moments in silence with a newspaper might not save the world, but it could start saving our attention, arguably our most valuable and endangered resource.
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The challenge today is finding the quiet apart from the online world needed to create valuable work while leveraging the new digital ecosystem for its benefits.
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These soulless data-churning machines are spitting out nonsense so pervasively that they’re beginning to shape the way we actually see the world.
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While there might not be a culture-wide renewal of faith yet, some significant voices are heralding a new way forward.
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The fact that such a video is available and became so widely watched is a horror in itself; a grisly crime is now a scene in a murder episode.
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Galloway also resists the notion that one needs to “find their passion” to lead a fulfilling life: Those who say that to young people are “already rich.”
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November 22nd, 1963 marks the day that three influential men of the twentieth century died: C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and President John F. Kennedy.
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A couple of days ago, I chanced upon a trailer for the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon. The original film, based on the book of the same name, premiered in 2010 and follows the heartfelt adventure story of a young Nordic lad, Hiccup, and his friendly dragon Toothless (who does, in fact, have teeth). The original movie got great reviews and remains one of my personal favorite animated films. It has memorable and funny characters, a good storyline, and is well animated. So why do we need a live-action version of the movie? A Loss of Originality Disney led the charge with its realistic remakes with live-action representations of Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and Cinderella, Read More ›
In 2005, writer David Foster Wallace captured the ethos of a fragile America while talking to college students. The speech warrants rereading today, given the current state of free speech and thought on college campuses nationwide. Wallace delivered This is Water as a commencement speech to Kenyon College seniors seeking to inspire the next generation of thinkers, builders, and servers. It tackled cynicism and forgiveness through simple examples, like swimming fish. Yet, its enduring spirit lies in how perfectly Wallace addresses the American identity crisis. In his words, “the really significant education… isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.” Wallace’s advice is a rebuke against selfishness. The ability to think is useless if you refuse to learn Read More ›
Smartphones are distracting and addicting, but according to Jonathan Haidt, and supported by our common experience, they can also keep us from a basic ingredient of human life: Experience. Sometimes I wonder if the worst aspect of the “dopamine culture,” as culture critic Ted Gioia calls it, is not that we no longer have the attention spans to focus on our work, but that we no longer seem able to enjoy activities that aren’t based on screens. Simple pleasures like a good meal, meant to savor and digest at a slow pace, or going through a rich and complicated novel that yields real insight and literary joy, or even kissing an actual person in an affectionate way are all “old-school” Read More ›