If you haven’t heard of Austin McConnell by now, you should probably go check out his channel on YouTube. He’s a filmmaker, and he specializes in short, fantastic video essays....
Imagine you were part of a group that publishes an album that, while not changing the world, charts on Billboard for 14 weeks and peaks at 71. Imagine that, undeterred,...
Maybe I can’t take a joke, or maybe there’s something seriously wrong with political humor TV shows. I think that the truth matters and watching these shows tends to make...
You’ve probably heard the term “The Great Recession” used to describe the implosion of the housing bubble in 2007, which led to a worldwide financial crisis and years of economic...
In general, I don’t pay too much attention to Twitter. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that there’s something systemically wrong with the platform, just that it’s...
Maybe you aren’t the kind of person who believes in divine providence, but it would be hard to deny that two events that recently happened to me were not at...
I’ve wanted to write about the Sykes-Picot Agreement for a long time. It’s pretty much universally-derided, to the point where I thought it would be difficult to show what the...