A Review of Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” All lovers of horror movies have developed the faculty of seeing the deeper visions hidden behind layers of shlock. I liken it to a kind of...
Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two”: A Review Denis Villeneuve’s Dune series, the two-part adaptation of the 1965 sci-fi novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, has become a surprise cultural...
Note from the Editors: This essay is part II of “The Inverted Great Men“, a III-part series on recent Hollywood & mainstream media distortions of great historical figures. Read Part I on Napoleon,...
How Ridley Scott took one of the most dynamic, remarkable figures in history and made him boring From the moment the first teaser photos were released showing Joaquin Phoenix scowling underneath a bicorn...
Alejandro Monteverde’s “Sound of Freedom” is Not Pure Kino, but Kino Enough The liberal media reaction to Alejandro Monteverde’s Sound of Freedom, starring Jim Caviezel as a former government...
On the potential and role of AI in shaping culture, politics, and religion “From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot...
How Oligarchic Philanthropy replaced Nobility “‘Tis the chief glory of the high and mighty to be gracious, a prerogative of kings to conquer universal goodwill. That is the great advantage of a...
The UK’s Silent Majority: On the origin of “British Asians” In a previous article titled “How Britain Built Diversity,” I explored the myth that has arisen in Britain regarding the origin...
On the concept of Gnosticism in the 21st Century Following sporadically insightful deployment over the past several years, recent clumsy attempts to polemically deploy the term Gnosticism has now pushed...
Being and Stalingrad: On the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad In the climax to the 2001 Stalingrad film Enemy at the Gates, Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev (Jude Law) and his antagonist and...
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon”: A Review After two critically acclaimed films winning mainstream attention, Damian Chazelle is back with a depiction of the 1920s film industry in Babylon (2022)....
Cormac McCarthy’s “The Passenger”: A Review “He knew that on the day of his death he would see her face and he could hope to carry that beauty into the darkness with him, the last pagan on earth,...
The latest victim of The Global American Deathstar I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s a World Cup on. If you’re in America it’s time once more to lament the strange, communistic sport...
How Memes play an important role in changing the world If you want to take somebody with you, show them where you’re going. Not Tennyson nor Sassoon can capture the horrors of war with their prose,...
Tucker’s Last Taunt: A review of Tucker Carlson Originals’ “The End Of Men” Above the storms of Cancel Culture, one man stands in the stratosphere high above the collective shrieking REEE of...
Why the attempt to turn artists into political pundits will always fail “So I know you give these questions, and I give you all these three-part answers. This is a cool format for you?”
— Kanye...
What Jorge Luis Borges’s “Undr” tell us about Life and Art In visiting Barcelona for the first time, my wife, my daughter and I went to the parade for the Día de los Reyes Magos. I used to find...
Antisocial America: From Cults to Serial Killers to Classrooms “You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody’s crazy.”
— Charles Manson
MK Ultra, Helter...
Time Travelling through Beirut: What Westerners should learn from the Lebanese “The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies.”
— Céline, Journey...
On the Tragic Death of the Boys’ Adventure Novel “If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, while writing ‘Treasure Island’
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