There’s only one lens through which the Trump presidency makes actual sense: As a self-organizing A/B experiment in sociology, carried out on the grandest of scales. The A part of the experiment was a man[…]
Over the years my reconstructivist art theory has proven inspirational to a number of interesting artists, thinkers and academics. Here are a couple of the coolest ones I’ve come across recently: Above, painter Peter SmeethPeter[…]
I first discovered James Alan McPherson when I read his masterful novella Elbow Room, in a collection of stories by black authors called The African American West. I traced it back to his Pulitzer-Prize winning collection, also[…]
I want to preface this by saying Alfonso Cuaron is a genius. Not only did he write and direct Children of Men, my own pick for top film ever, he also wrote and directed Y[…]
