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July 17, 2025It is no secret that Americans enjoy violence. What Raymond Chandler called “the simple art of murder” remains a constant source of fascination for us, so much so that it...
July 11, 2025This month, The New York Times released one of those “best films of the century so far”-type lists that periodicals love so much, sourced from 500-plus...
June 23, 2025If there is a patron saint of this newsletter (not that there should be such a ridiculous thing) it would have to be Michel de Montaigne. It is his estate that adorns the landing...
May 9, 2025Shocking as it is to report, Donald Trump has only been in office just over three months. In that short time, he has roiled the news cycles (and the markets) with radical changes to...
February 24, 2025Humour is a strange thing. Back when Christopher Hitchens was both alive and still playing his assigned role of Naughty Little Provocateur, he attracted some controversy over an...
January 27, 2025For at least several decades, a handful of clichés were understood to be generally representative of the American college experience: binge drinking, frat parties,...
January 10, 2025One of the original proposed names for Monty Python’s Flying Circus was supposedly “Whither Canada?” This once comical question is now being asked...
January 6, 2025In viewing A Complete Unknown, I must admit to remaining mystified that rock biopics continue to get made at all in the wake of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the...
