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Three Things White People Can Learn from Dan Cathy and ‘The Babylon Bee’
White people who engage in crass, public, performative acts make themselves look foolish — and it’s not what black people want Credit: Annette Bernhardt, Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2je9tHK Two weekends...
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Now is Not the Time for Creators to Cancel Their Work: Why Art is Essential...
The delay of artistic expression buys into the notion that everything will go back to “normal” — which is not what we want. Way back in March 2020, I was stoked to realize that PVRIS, one of my...
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Betraying “America”: Sufjan Stevens Asks Us to Kiss the Country We Know Goodbye
A day before our nation marked its independence from Great Britain for the 244th time, indie folk/rock artist Sufjan Stevens released “America,” the first single off his upcoming album, The Ascension....
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Why Batman Is a Terrible Superhero (Or, Why Our Present Social Crises Demand...
Bruce Wayne/Batman and Rachel Dawes in “Batman Begins” Published in Tor.com on September 28th, 2020. I’m a huge fan of the Dark Knight, so I was ready to throw hands a few weeks ago when someone told...
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The Mouth of Sauron: A Meditation on the Year Past and the Year to Come
In my opinion, a scene cut from The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King is one of the greatest scenes in what is arguably the world’s greatest-ever film trilogy. The three-minute clip finds...
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Pixar’s SOUL is the Perfect Movie for a World Weary of Living
Dorothea Williams (Angela Bassett) and Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) There’s a scene in Pixar’s latest movie Soul where Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a struggling middle school music teacher, steps out of a...
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There Are No Cruel Narnians
What The Horse and His Boy Can Tell Us About Racism, Cultural Superiority, Beauty Standards, and Inclusiveness The Chronicles of Narnia has legions of fans around the world. According to journalist...
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At the beginning of 2021, my One Year Chronological Bible Reading Plan had me in the throes of Joseph’s story—after more than twenty years believing his son was dead, Jacob, the Hebrew patriarch,...
View ArticleThe Annihilation of Bruce Wayne
How the Batman Becomes a Popular Avenger I knew I’d love The Batman about thirty minutes in when Robert Pattinson (as Bruce Wayne) locks eyes with the mourning son of Gotham City’s slain mayor. It’s a...
View ArticleThose Who Read vs. Those Who Watch
Early this year, after watching Amazon’s adaptation of Wheel of Time (among other things), I began wondering if a (moving) picture is really worth a thousand words. The articles linked below are the...
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