Automating CareFilms like Subservience and M3gan, and to some extent even Her, highlight the direction in which automation is heading; that is, in the…Dec 23Dec 23
The Nightmare of ChristmasThe title of Tim Burton’s animated musical, The Nightmare Before Christmas, is a pun on the poem by Clement Clark Moore called ‘A Visit…Dec 19Dec 19
How ‘White Knight’ Became an InsultEdmund Burke, who is credited with being the ‘first conservative’, is perhaps the best known example of someone claiming that chivalry is…Dec 14Dec 14
Published inRead or Die — HQBeauty and the Beast: Why the Disney Version is Better Than the OriginalHis transformation into the Beast was not the result of an evil, jealous witch, but the fault of his own vanity and selfishnessDec 5Dec 5
Baudelaire: The Irresponsible ArtistThere is no better representative of l’artiste maudit (the tortured artist) than Charles Baudelaire, a man whose name is synonymous with…Dec 2Dec 2
Football Fandom & Theseus’s ParadoxWhat do football fans support if the players keep changing? — and not just the players, there’s the management, the coaches, the…Nov 7Nov 7
LOTR and the Far-RightGoogle ‘Lord of the Rings and the far-right’ and you’ll find a bunch of articles fretting over the far-right’s appropriation of Tolkien’s…Nov 11Nov 11
Kronk’s ChoiceThere’s a scene in The Emperor’s New Groove where Yzma’s henchman, Kronk, is ordered to kill the emperor Kuzco. But right before he’s about…Oct 19Oct 19
The Sicilian Mafia II: Family and Business‘They weren’t like anyone else. They did whatever they wanted.’Oct 1Oct 1
The Sicilian Mafia: Immigration and the ‘Alternate Economy’Opponents of immigration like to highlight the criminality of immigrants. Ben Shapiro, for instance, (in a sentence designed to deflect…Sep 26Sep 26
