Entertainment

Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans and the Pursuit of Happiness 32
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- August 4, 2025
Can it be true? Can a blue jeans advertisement perform like a magician’s top hat, producing irony, racism, sex appeal, body positivity, Nazism, and eugenics all at the same time? Apparently so. Recently, American Eagle jeans featured actress Sydney Sweeney in an ad that caused some heads to explode among our ever vigilant supervisors of
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The Newest ‘War of the Worlds’ and Its Unsteady Message on Data Privacy 40
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
- August 1, 2025
A new adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic “War of the Worlds” hit Amazon Prime this week – and it is a doozy. Already at #2 on the Amazon charts, this version boasts a unique perspective. That perspective? A computer monitor. The entire film is presented as if the audience is watching a recording of a single screen,
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Make Peace With Boredom 37
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Philosophy, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- July 31, 2025
In the city of Drachten in the Netherlands a four-way intersection sits in the middle of a town square. Cars, trucks, buses, and bicycles all weave between one other as they navigate the road. A middle-aged Dutchman walks casually into the intersection, talking with a friend. He turns around, walking backwards. He closes his eyes.
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Family + Science Is Not the Magic Equation ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Thinks It Is 34
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Science, Uncategorized
- July 25, 2025
“Avengers: Endgame,” Marvel’s 2019 conclusion to over a decade of storytelling, earned over $2.7 billion at the global box office. It was a worldwide sensation. Recently, however, Disney’s superhero brand has had trouble at the multiplex. You know that feeling when you stay too long at a party? And you realize, “Wait, I’m not supposed to
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In Praise of Print 25
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 21, 2025
Fragmented. Distracted. So often, that’s our experience of the internet. Whenever I launch a browser, I am assaulted by an overwhelming mudslide of information, headlines, graphics, photos and videos splashing and splurging across the page, each vying for my attention. Clicking over to social media, I’m inundated with a new firehose of topics, tags, talking
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The New ‘Superman’ Surprises with a Message About the Value of Human Life 22
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Uncategorized
- July 16, 2025
Before its release, the word in conservative circles was that the new Superman movie was “woke.” Director James Gunn seemed to confirm that prediction Friday in an interview with The Times in which he framed his “Superman” as a potentially offensive story about an immigrant. As a result, I expected a preachy and progressive Superman. What I
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