Very good *xoxogossipgita piece on what made Joss Whedon so fresh 20+ years ago and how the act has worn thin in recent years. Full of interesting details while avoiding the trap of going all-or-nothing on his expansive career arc.

"We cannot hope to meet the challenges posed by digital technologies with the same uncritical techno-solutionism and optimism that have failed us in the past."

"Sometimes I feel like a weather vane, unable to take a clear stand for or against anything. By attitude, I’m more prone to take a neutral position, to evaluate pros and contras. This has happened to me several times over the course of this _...Read More_

"A new biography of the artist unearths the gleeful child behind the highbrow works."

This is a really good piece., There is a growing convergence and collaboration between 'gender critical' and the far-right in spreading anti-trans narratives and targeting trans people for harassment.

"In the works of Camus and Thomas Mann, an outbreak reveals how dysfunctional society already was."

"Amia Srinivasan’s new book asks difficult questions about who is deemed attractive and who isn’t."

>"There is no “getting beyond race” at this point. There are only the choices to grapple with and redress its harmful impacts ethically or to engage in the _...Read More_

>"Do we give the activist groups of the 1960s more credit than they deserve?"

A year ago, Christopher Rufo was an obscure documentarian. Now, he’s being invited on Tucker Carlson’s show to gin up fears of Marxism in America.

>"You are entering a Critical Zone! The Critical Zone is just a few kilometers thick. It is the only region of the Earth that has been transformed by life over many eons. The digital exhibition Critical Zones is dedicated to the critical _...Read More_

"The new movie with Carey Mulligan takes a bold approach to a story of sexual assault." Sexual violence and misogyny have for so long provided mainstream film and television with a wellspring of entertaining tropes, that when writers and _...Read More_

>"What critics’ obsession with the vicious takedown says about the current state of food journalism"