The world is a complex and troubled place. We can’t fix it. To mature is to understand this. One of the big differences between liberals and conservatives is that the latter have already come to terms with the fact that…
Netflix will soon feature Munich: The Edge of War, an adaptation of British author Robert Harris’ 2017 novel Munich, which portrays British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as a hero for negotiating what Harris calls his “shrewd” Munich Agreement in September…
In the popular new Netflix series The Girl from Oslo, Pia (Andrea Berntzen), a Norwegian medical student, is hanging out on the beach in Sinai with two 20-ish Israeli chums, Nadav (Daniel Litman), and his sister Noa (Shira Yosef), when…
Conservatives have been quick to laud Netflix as a supporter of freedom of expression ever since the company defended Dave Chapelle’s recent stand-up special, The Closer. But don’t be fooled, binge-watchers: the streaming giant still wishes you ill. In the…
Dave Chappelle, arguably America’s best loved comedian, apparently slept through his Intersectionality 101 class, and his would-be woke masters are purple with rage. The LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD joined with others in “condemning” Chappelle’s newly released Netflix special, “The Closer.” …
No, Higher Ground isn’t where the Obamas plan to move to from their beachfront Martha’s Vineyard mansion when they flee the rising ocean levels caused by climate change. It’s the name of their production company, which in May 2018 inked…
I haven’t been a regular Saturday Night Live viewer since some time in the late 17th century, so I missed Bowen Yang’s impression of Fran Lebowitz on an episode that aired in January. Recently, however, I caught up with it…
In his 1995 book Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, former U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork writes about America’s slow decline and its departure from Judeo-Christian traditions. His prescient predictions on the rise of the…
Sometimes a television series can’t decide what it wants to be when it grows up — or whether it wants to grow up at all. Case in point: Bridgerton, now on Netflix. One knows from the previews that it will…
