Despite a recent high-profile court victory, Ed Sheeran isn’t in love with the shape of copyright law. In a case that has attracted international attention, the estate of the late Ed Townsend claimed that Sheeran unlawfully copied elements of “Let’s…
America is plagued by inflation and headed, perhaps, for economic collapse. Illegals flood across our border. We’re funding a European conflict that could turn into World War III. Our dubious 2020 election saddled us with an incomparably incorrupt, hollow shell…
The mustache, Adolphe Menjou meets Errol Flynn, foreshadowed the end. Muhammad Ali jarringly wore one prior to his disastrous fight with Larry Holmes. Now Vince McMahon, for the first time in his five decades or so in the spotlight, wears…
In an episode of the late, great sitcom The King of Queens, Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his wife, Carrie (Leah Remini), meet their friends Deacon and Kelly at a cineplex for a night at the movies only to discover…
With the disappointing election now behind us, I can forsake politics for the rest of the year and jump back into the even more disappointing arts culture beat. Not deeply enough to actually watch the dreck being shoveled on modern…
How to respond to someone who insults you? It depends. How deep was the insult? How personal? How dangerous? Will a response enhance your own position or embroil you in a conflict that you don’t need? Let’s say you are…
Jordan Peele’s films are more often than not pegged as works of social commentary, and though his latest film, Nope — about a UFO that turns out to be a hitherto unknown sky creature — seems at first glance to be…
In February of 1967, Batman was in trouble. Just one year earlier, the ABC series had been the biggest hit on TV, a cultural phenomenon that included a big-screen movie version. But things changed fast in the late ’60s, and…
An epidemic is ravaging college campuses and it’s not COVID. But in the long run, it may prove more deadly to the academic enterprise because it fuels uncritical thinking and leaves damaged reputations in its wake. The variants to worry…
