Last summer's Superman did the only thing the character has ever asked of him: he took the side of the people who were being told they didn't belong. The right-wing freak-out that followed wasn't a misreading of the film. It…
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Batman Beyond opens with one of the saddest images in animation: Bruce Wayne, brittle and alone, finally outmatched by a body that won't do the thing he taught…
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Half Man arrived this spring. The anti-hero era never ended; it just learned to look at itself.
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A skinny twenty-something photographs himself nearly dying, walks five blocks to the only buyer in town, and gets lowballed by a man who profits from his peril. The…
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The administration that spent the campaign insisting Project 2025 was a heritage-foundation thought experiment with no operational future has, in its first sixteen months, implemented roughly eighty percent…
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Critical reading is civic self-defense, and we keep treating it like an elective.
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High art, low art, and why both of those categories are made up.
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