When you carefully examine the infrastructure connecting the pristine upper middle-class houses of Maybrook, Pennsylvania to the gleaming elementary school where 17 students in the same class have...
A lot of people don’t realize that I am a fan of country music. Maybe it’s the whole Ukrainian thing. Although being originally from a country that has dealt with as much shit as Ukraine has, I...
Netflix’s Untamed has just been renewed for a second season, which is terrific news for those of us who obsess over the beauty of the American West. When it came out, I was surprised to read some...
This week I am in Moab, Utah, which is so painfully beautiful that it is hard to handle. Moab sits in a valley surrounded by dreamlike sandstone foundations, with the La Sal mountains towering to the...
For a person who’s not much interested in the Oscars, I am extremely happy that Demi Moore has snagged a Best Actress nomination for The Substance. The Substance is body horror at its best, and...
With its 1000th episode rapidly approaching, this is the perfect time for a nod to the genius and vitality of American podcast Knowledge Fight. In an era where conspiracy theories and misinformation...
“America’s not a country, it’s just a business. Now fucking pay me!” Jackie Cogan’s last line from Andrew Dominik’s gangster tragicomedy, Killing Them Softly is as powerful as anything in...
With the behemoth that is Netflix in our lives, it can be easy to forget that Apple TV+ makes some amazing television. I am one of many people who is eagerly awaiting the return of Severance, for...
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame In April 2024, during Passover, a group of American rabbis approached a border crossing in Israel. Affiliated with Rabbis for Ceasefire, the group joined Jewish...
While Israel’s war against Palestine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine still make above-the-fold news here in the US - mostly in the hyperbolic navel-gazing form of whether or not the former will...
