Do the people in publishing have a way with words? Meh. Rather, the published words have a way with people. Words affect thought, culture, law, and society. A dictionary definition may affect constitutional interpretations and protected rights. Because dictionaries signify…
Marvel’s newest film, The Marvels, isn’t expected to do well at the box office. The movie, which cost a reported $200 million to produce, is supposed to make a measly $50–60 million — a low number by studio standards. Early…
College enrollments in the humanities have declined, even more than the general fall in the numbers attending college. West Virginia University recently laid off numerous faculty in the humanities, especially foreign languages, and other schools have done so on a…
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) has announced that, henceforth, it will rename all birds in the Americas currently bearing the names of people. The purpose, it claims, is to eliminate names “deemed offensive and exclusionary.” Say goodbye to Anna’s hummingbird…
Yes, yes — we’re leading off this week’s 5QT with a recitation of the obvious. But have you noticed that recitations of the obvious appear ever more necessary as our world devolves into utter stupidity? Back in college, I had…
Perhaps the gods of political incorrectness are exacting revenge upon Major League Baseball’s screwy wokesters. I recently wrote about the implosion of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Despite posting another 100-win season, the Dodgers pathetically failed to make it through the…
The House of Love and Death By Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press, 312 pages, $27) A sad drawback in what passes for art today is that too many “artists” are less perceptive than the perceivers. The bar for film and literature…
In my sordid past, I was a Hollywood-based screenwriter. This was from the mid-90s to the mid-00s when people bought or rented movies rather than stream videos on their cellphones. Although I wrote good “A” scripts that didn’t sell, I…
