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When ‘The Shining’ was overlooked
Since its cinematic release on May 23, 1980, Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece The Shining has terrified and perplexed audiences in equal measure. While the Stephen King novel…
June 11, 2025
Game of drones: A new way of war
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Adventures of an immovable object: Review of ‘The Stalker’ by Paula Bomer
Paula Bomer’s novel The Stalker is a poorly written book. The narrative voice is dull. It observes narrowly, always telling when showing would suffice. Its descriptions are…
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Fleming in the flesh
Caffery Bone, the literary editor of a London periodical, receives an invitation to stay at the mansion of the publication’s proprietor. It doesn’t bode well. Bone is…
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Two novels and a cancellation: Review of ‘Speak to Me of Home’ by Jeanine Cummins
Gather round the campfire, children, and I’ll tell you a spooky, scary story about witches and the hunting of them. It was a time of turmoil and…
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What might have been: Alternate history vs. the multiverse
The accession of Leo XIV, the first American pope and the third successive non-Italian to lead the Catholic Church, brings to mind the illustrious career of Pope…
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Grifting at sea. Who floats Gaza’s boat?
Greta Thunberg is grifting at sea. The moonfaced Swedish malcontent and 11 other Hamas supporters left the Sicilian port of Catania on the Madleen on the morning…
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Packing it all in
“It’s not the plan,” former President Dwight D. Eisenhower is supposed to have said, “it’s the planning.” I guess that means that the details of a certain…
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Alasdair MacIntyre, 1929-2025
When Alasdair MacIntyre sat down to write After Virtue in 1981, he didn’t just pen a book — he launched a philosophical rebellion. The Scottish American thinker, who died on…
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‘Reconciliation’ tears Trump and Musk apart
Only in Washington could a legislative process called “reconciliation” actually drive President Donald Trump and his erstwhile ally Elon Musk apart. Less than a week after Musk…
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Drones — the new war machines
For three years and more since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperial invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we have become accustomed to referring to Russia’s “war machine.” …