Jul
08
How Manners Can Save Us
10 min read
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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
Feb
04
The Days After Tomorrow
On post-apocalypses, the double meaning of "millennial," and the exquisitely trashy Day After Tomorrow.
19 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
