Editors’ Note: Pete Rose passed away on September 30 at the age of 83. This column was written prior to his passing. By the time you see this, Major League...
Culture in Context
Jim Henson wasn’t interested in making children’s shows. That is one of the big surprises in Ron Howard’s new celebratory documentary Jim Henson: Idea Man...
Sadly, the final season of Vera is just over the Northumberland horizon. In 2025, the beloved BBC police drama will air its last and 14th series. The show is...
In the early 1990s, America was obsessed with violent inner-city crime, especially if it was committed by young Black men. The crack cocaine epidemic was...
When screening his exceptional film Pope Francis: A Man of His Word at the Film Society at Lincoln Center in New York, the internationally acclaimed filmmaker...
An alien crashes to Earth near a remote cabin, tosses its owner into the lake, replicates his DNA, takes on his identity as a vacationing physician, and...
There’s probably no more “post-Christian” place on Earth than contemporary Scandinavia. According to the Pew Foundation, only 7 percent of Norwegians say they...
The popular British science fiction series Doctor Who has just celebrated a momentous landmark: 60 years of broadcasting. What started as a modest time-travel...
Two new films, The Black Demon and Meg 2: The Trench, are the latest in a six-decade-long string of films about big, bad sharks noshing on people. Why does...
In 1848, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote that capitalism, with its “[c]onstant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social...
