Murder is a real conundrum for modern humans. Officially, we are against it.

Elizabeth Stice on the violence at the heart of modern life

Though Beef does not end with a “born again” moment, it points us to the hunger for one.

Elizabeth Stice on two artistic windows into ourselves and our times

Beef draws attention to the hamster wheel of our America today.

Elizabeth Stice on two artistic windows into ourselves and our times

The way to break the vicious cycle of Fascism and Anti-Fascism… is to embrace a more personalistic conception of the state which sees in the individual a meeting place of relationships of every kind.

Matthew Scarince on Christ Stopped at Eboli

Modern American viewers seem to suffer from the same bias as The Gilded Age characters themselves: if it isn’t the English way, it isn’t anything at all.

Jacob Martin on Julian Fellows’s newest television series

If you give your soul to the enterprise, for the sake of your desire to live a meaningful life beyond its reach, you might be rewarded with the blessing of forgetting that such a life was ever possible.

Daniel Cunningham on the neoliberal wager