Arts

"...while The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication."

"Vanity may well be part of hubris, but a more crucial sense of the word is terrible judgment, gross overconfidence, blindness, obtuseness, a failure to see what is staring you in the face..."

We're viscerally learning lessons about how damage done to the natural world will invariably blow back on us, whether in the form of disease or climate disruption or both.

"Beethoven’s music—its subversive, revolutionary, passionately democratic, and freedom-exalting nature."

"The controversy over the new Netflix movie Cuties is so stupid, you never should’ve heard about it. But it’s gotten so hysterically overblown by this point, it can’t be ignored anymore."

George Orwell reviewed Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' in March 1940

Whitest Man on Earth Performs 'WAP' Despite Hating WAP

"Yes, reform has certainly failed. Reform is just another word for pacification. It is a method of appeasement of certain classes within oppressed communities."