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The 25 Best Books I Read This Year
Maybe The Best Way To Oppose Fascism Is To Fucking Oppose It
The Best Roots Albums of the Year
*Joy Ride* Isn't Sure Where It's Going
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Misogyny Is Hard to Escape In "The Royal Hotel"
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
Jeff Bezos Likes Mozart Because Mozart Is Dead
Poor Things Makes Vivisecting the Patriarchy Look Easy
Past Lives Is An All-Time Great Romcom By Not Being a Romcom
One Year Anniversary of Paid Subscriptions
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Star Trek TOS S2E12: The Deadly Years
On Trans Rights, Vote for Biden
I For One Welcome Our Oankali Overlords
“American Fiction” Pillories Tired Hollywood Racism
Spitting on Kissinger's Corpse as Conceptual Art
"It Lives Inside" Can't Escape Orientalist Horror
Biden Isn’t Losing…and This Week’s Writing 12/2/23
Demanding Liberal Women Marry Trump Supporters Isn't Just Sexist
Anatomy of a Fall Refuses to Give Viewers a Femme Fatale
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You Hurt My Feelings Tries to Show Failure
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Some Reading for the Holiday Week
Boudica And Rooting for the Colonized
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What Teen Raunch Comedies Won't Say
Americans Hate the Economy. Americans Love the Economy.
When George Bailey Looks In the Mirror, Does He See Patrick Bateman?
Christian Music for Jewish Souls
The 25 Best Albums of the 1970s
Porn is Normal; Sociology is Weird
The Long War Between Highbrow and Lowbrow
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When Evil Lurks Makes Evil Smart.
Intent Is Central to the Definition of Genocide
Can Superheroes Do Without Prisons?
The 1973 War and the 1973 Peace
The 25 Best Albums of the 1950s
Israel and American Jewish Identity
Star Trek TOS S2E11: Friday's Child
The Economic Anxiety Explanation of Fascism Is Wrong
Death in Paradise, Violence in the Colonies
Growing Up Where They Don't Say Gay
The Courts Struggle to Restrain Trump
No Happy Ending: Steven Universe as Bleak Parable
It’s Okay to Criticize Feinstein
Chris Arnade and The Limits of Real America Reporting
Why I’m Okay With Being Called a ‘Content Creator’
Star Trek TOS S2E10: Journey to Babel
Empathy Doesn't Make You Less Racist
Jann Wenner Is Garbage. But Not Because He's a Boomer.
The Shylock of the Lord of the Rings
Trump Has Hacked GOP Partisanship
Married to the Mob Is a Grim Story About Domestic Abuse
Star Trek TOS S2E9: Metamorphosis
Oh Lord, Stay the Fuck Out of Deadwood
The NYT Uses Trans Hate to Discipline Its Workers
Trump and the Christofascist Volk
Trump shouldn't have had to post bond
The One Democratic Messaging Trick That Could Destroy the GOP
Jordan Peterson's Anti-Leftism Pulls Him Towards Fascism
Free Speech Isn't To Protect Presidents
Trump Reminds the RNC That He’s a Fascist
The Appealingly Modest Thunder God
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Star Trek TOS S2E6: The Doomsday Machine
Femme Fatale And The Joy of Castration
It Doesn't Matter If Jason Aldean Is From a Small Town
What We Should Remember About William Hurt
Maybe Biden's Approval Is Bad Because Everything Is Horrible
There Isn't a Crisis of Masculinity
Polite Society Is An Anti-Romcom Romcom
Galaxy Quest Isn't Much Like Star Trek TOS
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Tracy Chapman Maybe Gets Somewhere
Spider-Man: No Way Home Keeps Peter in the Closet
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The Best Roots Music Albums of 2023
How Philosophy Can Address Marginalized Identities
Mark Zuckerberg, The Sad Billionaire
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Ana Kasparian Would Not Have Supported the Civil Rights Movement
Sartre as Antifascist, Sartre as Antisemite
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Star Trek TOS S2E3: The Changeling
"Biological Sex" Isn't a Thing
Indy 5 and the Irrelevant Nazis
This Is Your Brain on Altruism
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Moon Knight Shows that Work Sucks
The 10 Best Horror Films of the 1950s
Do We Need More Empathy for Billionaires?
Star Trek TOS S2E2: Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Diplomat Is An Authoritarian Fantasy for Liberals
The Eternals Demonstrates Why Trolley Problems Make Bad Stories
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The 10 Best Horror Films of the 1960s
Angela Nagle Critiques Angela Nagle
Jurassic Park Is a Colonial Playground
The Left's Main Goal Shouldn't Be Converting Jordan Peterson Fans
A Black James Bond Would Change Some Things
The Good Madam Is About the Intimacy of Racist Violence
The 11 Best Horror Films of the 70s
Star Trek TOS S1E29: Operation: Annihilate!
"I Don't Think You Exist" Often Means "You Shouldn't Exist"
The Working Class and Other Mistaken Identities
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Kelly Cadigan and Leaving the Right for Selfish Reasons
Shang-Chi Fights Heterosexual Expectations
Spin Me Round Has Trouble Finding Its Place
The 10 Best Horror Films of the 80s
Star Trek TOS S1E27: The Alternative Factor
Who Wins in Succession? The Answer is Barry.
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Trans Superheroes Are the Best Superheroes
Ida Is a Holocaust Movie That Isn’t Made for Christians
The 10 Best Horror Films of the 1990s
This Week's Writing 5/19/23: Time for a Rest!
Force Majeure Mocks Masculinity
Is Ben Shapiro a Self-Hating Jew?
Phil Tippett’s Mad God Is a Joyful Celebration of Stop-Motion Ick
Star Trek TOS S1E28: The City on the Edge of Forever
Let's Take Magneto Out of the Holocaust
Were the Nazis Everyone's Fault?
Index to Best Horror Films by Decade
On Reading/Writing/Being Something or Other
Sweet Home Alabama and Racism as Romantic Comedy
Anderson Cooper Wants Trump to Urinate On Your Floor
Star Trek TOS S1E26: Errand of Mercy
Substack Doesn’t Love the Little Guy
Guns Don't Kill People; Nazis Kill People
Why I Don't Like Mary Oliver's "The Swan"
The Coddling of American Professor's Minds
Episode 1: Kafka vs. Tucker Carlson
The Heady Rush of...*Cocaine Bear*!
The 10 Best Horror Films of the 2000s
Star Trek TOS S1E25: The Devil in the Dark
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Why Didn't A Reporter Tell Us That Trump Had Bullied Him?
Best Movies of the Past 25 Years
Burying the White Working Class
The Boys Animation Is Better Than It Has Any Right to Be
Star Trek TOS S1E24: This Side of Paradise
Welp, I Just Lost a Sixth of My Income
The 10 Best Horror Movies of the 2010s
Tucker Carlson Is Not Your Friend, FFS
Harry Belafonte's Groundbreaking Album "Calypso"
Is Substack a Neoliberal Hellhole?
Marry Me and Fake to Real Rom Coms
Substack Admits To Sweeping Ignorance About Content Moderation
12 Years a Slave and More: Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad”
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Star Trek TOS S1E23: A Taste of Armageddon
The Obama/Trump Voter And Structural Racism
Ban Nazis, Unban Sex Workers on Substack
Our Problem Isn't Polarization. It's Fascism.
Anne Tyler Doesn't Need to Worry
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The 25 Best Guitarists of All Time
Far From Heaven Shows We're Still In Sirk's World
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The Holocaust Isn't a Feel Good Story for Christians
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The White Actor in Imitation of Life
Elon Musk vs. His Own Business Model
Star Trek TOS S1E22: Space Seed
Accusing Republicans of Hypocrisy Is Pointless
The Mc Donaldification of America
The Wisconsin Victory is Good News for Joe Biden
Not Horseshoe Theory. Tentacle Theory.
What Polls Can and Can’t Tell You
Guidance Shows The Bleak Side of Empathy
The Northman Is Good, But Not Original
Star Trek TOS S1E21: The Return of the Archons
Trump Is the Strongest 2024 GOP Nominee
The GOP Still Wants Guns for Its Apocalyptic Fantasies
Kagan and Sotomayor Should Retire
The Shape of Pop Music Inequity
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Jim Jordan Isn’t Fighting for Republicans
Star Trek TOS S1E20: Court Martial
The Villain in Power of the Dog Isn’t Who You Think It Is
Yes, We Should Use the Fucking F-Word
Condemning Joss Whedon After JL Is Easy
Firestarter Remake Isn't Even Worth a Bad Pun
How Hollywood Lets Real Fascists Off the Hook
Infinity War and the Dream of Egalitarian Genocide
Star Trek TOS S1E19: Tomorrow Is Yesterday
We're Doing Better Than the German Left
Yes, The Republicans Are Fascists
Firestarter 1984 Is a Surreal Superhero Film
No, Don't Let Marianne Williamson Debate
Everybody’s a Critic. So Stop Hating Critics.
All Praise Dune! No, Not That One.
This Week's Writing: The Kitty Is Confused!
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We Don’t Value Trans Voices — Even On Trans Issues
The Real Key to Becoming a Successful Writer
Star Trek TOS S1E17: The Squire of Gothos
Bullet Train Is a Moderately Enjoyable Ride
The Pros and Cons of Holocaust Analogies
The Best Korean Alien/Wuxia/Time Travel Film You Are Likely To See This Week
Star Trek TOS: S1E16 Galileo Seven
Vron Ware Talks About White Femininity and Racism
Star Trek TOS S1E15: Shore Leave
Emily Dickinson Demands That God Pay Up
Joel Osteen Provides Secrets to Godly Success
Why Face/Off Is Twice As Good As All Other Action Movies
Star Trek TOS S1E14: Balance of Terror
Why Books Are Terrible: A Summary
Even Rich Kids Need Free College
They/Them Slashes the Queerphobia From the Slasher
If You Don't Envy Other Writers Are You Even a Writer?
Upload Shows How Anticapitalism Without Antiracism Is Awkwardly Unreal
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The Woman in the House Across the Street from Bad Television
Ant-Man and the Wasp Shrink the MCU
Star Trek TOS S1E13: The Conscience of the King
Hungry for a Feminist Slasher? Fresh Isn't Quite It
Halloween Ends Not With a Scream But With a Pratfall
Star Trek TOS S1E11-12: The Menagerie
The Flight Attendant Season 2 Flies to Safety
"Good Luck To You, Leo Grande" Makes a Quiet, Conventional Case for Revolutionary Pleasure
Samaritan shows Superheroes Can Suck Even If They're Not in the MCU
Bigbug is a Bright, Automated Cyborg Ballet
Star Trek TOS S1E10: The Corbomite Maneuver
Retaliators Is a Tedious Testosterone Revenge Pic
Why White Students Need Black History
Why Class First Leftists Are Wrong
Star Trek TOS S1E9: Dagger of the Mind
No, We Shouldn't Be Paying Attention to Something Else
Losing at Sports, One Generation at a Time
The Goodnight, Mommy Remake Once Again Trades on Easy Twists
Wakanda Forever Doesn’t Want Grief to Lead to Revolution
Coppola's The Beguiled Loves Confederate White Women
Tucker Carlson Helps Nazis Find Victims
Barbara Crampton Talks About Her Intense, Surprising Thriller—Without Men
355 Fights for the Female Buddy Action Movie, and Loses
Star Trek S2E67: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
The Very Natural Films of Alice Guy-Blaché
People Think Kamala Harris Is Inauthentic For the Same Reason They Thought Disco Was Inauthentic
The Sadness is a Zombie Film for the Covid Era
Colonization with a Tom Cruise Grin
Carmen Is An Easy Sentimental Comedy With Dark Shadows
Dude, Where's My Empowerment Fantasy?
Do Revenge Is a Teen Comedy That Makes Patricia Highsmith Happy
Star Trek TOS Rewatch: S1E6 Mudd's Women
The Creation of the Venus of Willendorf
The Future Will Be Stupid...Today
Star Trek Rewatch: S1E5: The Enemy Within
Barry's Season Three is the Bleakest Yet
Cam Girlz Treats Sex Work as a Business
Syndrome K Is Yet Another Inspiring Story About the Holocaust
Pleasure Presents a Conflicted View of the Porn Industry
History of Puerile Empowerment Fantasies
Who is the more violent: Tarantino or Bond?
Star Trek Rewatch: S1E4 The Naked Time
The Forgiven Struggles With Colonial Dreams
Ron DeSantis is able to use schools for fascism because schools are already authoritarian
Lou Is A Small Scale Action Thriller About Family Violence and Aging
Star Trek Rewatch: S1E3 Where No Man Has Gone Before
In the New Noir Ramsey, Weak Men Fail Slowly
The Jewish Tradition of Not Being Jewish
Confess That You’re Insufferable, Fletch
How gratitude buttresses the myth of meritocracy
The Essex Serpent Is Caught in the Coils of Misogyny
Raven’s Hollow is the Folk Horror Edgar Allan Poe Origin Story You Don’t Exactly Need
In Severance, Work is a Prison
Beast Is An Animal Attack Film With a Heart
Star Trek TOS Rewatch: S1E2 "Charlie X"
The Runner Shows Horror Is Better With Friends
Moon Knight Gives Us a Jewish Superhero. Oy Vey.
In The Wilds, You Can't Get Away From the Patriarchy
Star Trek TOS Rewatch: S1E1 "The Man Trap"
The Netflix Persuasion Is Not For Jane Austen Fans
How to Manage Your Freelance Writing Career Straight to Neoliberal Hell
The Gray Man Is Gray Genre Product
Woodland Dark and Days Bewitched Provides Terrifying Knowledge
A Poem about paywalls behind the paywall
Till Tries to Look At Injustice Through New Eyes
Should White Writers Write About Racism?
"I'm Totally Fine" Is SF About That Alien Emotion, Grief
Cronenberg and the Same New Queer Flesh
Violent Night Will Make You Believe It Could Have Been a Better Movie
Black Adam Fights Imperialism, But Not Too Hard
"You Won't Be Alone" Sheds Genre, Form, and Character
The 20 Best Albums You May Have Missed in 2022
I Was an Innocent Man, God Help Me