Despite All His Cage
July 01, 2022
Nicolas Cage’s career is a categorical triumph of style over substance.
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On the victory of Gustavo Petro Urrego and Francia Márquez Mina.
Last Man Standing
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Francis Fukuyama still pines for that old-time liberalism.
Fresh Hell
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Recession Obsession
As inflation continues its heedless assault on this nation’s hapless paycheck-to-paycheckers, sending the price of gasoline, glass cleaner, eggs, bacon, oranges, airline tickets, and just about everything else to bewildering heights, the Federal Reserve ...
Death by Video
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The Rag Dolls of Pompeii
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Dangerous as the Plague
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Anti-gay animus is nothing new.
Back to the Wall
June 22, 2022
The Wall studies the flimsiness of the self in isolation.
Memory
All is disordered in my usurped Bedouin memory.The young man who was electrocuted as he watered his fieldwas a potential groom for several little girls.His pores were potential lanterns in the dark after that charge of light.In all possibilities, memory betrays me.Was he a ...