Sep
23
Orc is Man To Orc
What does it take to create an entire race of enemies?
18 min read
Asher Elbein
Aug
15
The War on Invasive Species Is Making Things Worse: An Interview With Erick Lundgren
On feral ecologies, the failures of invasion biology, and the blurred lines between introduced and native species
30 min read
Jun
09
The Problem We All Live With
A beloved YA series leads to musings on the nature of child sacrifice.
8 min read
Apr
21
The Future of Dinosaurs: An Interview With Dr. David Hone
Dinosaur documentaries and an interview on the futures — knowable and unknowable — of dinosaur paleontology
16 min read
Apr
01
Decline And Fall Free: The Fall of Padme Amidala
Naboo's senator for peace failed long before she picked up a gun
9 min read
Apr
01
Decline And Fall: The Clone Crisis
Preparations for the Forever War begin in America--and in a galaxy far, far away
33 min read
Mar
03
The Species Problem
A recent New York Times story about T.rex forces us to ask: what, if anything, is a species?
8 min read
Feb
25
Decline and Fall Free: Let Us Beware Great Men
How do you end up with a man like Senator Palpatine?
5 min read
Feb
25
Decline And Fall: Phantom Menaces
An act of domestic terrorism highlights the cracks in 1990s America. The Star Wars Saga officially begins.
26 min read
Jan
27
Hunting Men: A Conversation with Gretchen Felker-Martin
An interview with a rising horror star about gender apocalypse stories, the importance of sexuality in media, and how to reject the very notion of safety.
15 min read
