It’s only August, but I’m going to make the call. Critics will eventually declare Barbie to be the film of…
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By the time Saint Zita was born just outside Lucca in the early thirteenth century, the town of Lucca was…
The downfall of public Christianity in modern America has been well documented. What has not been studied nearly as closely,…
Marijuana is the idol and emblem of a movement and a cult. It is not just a drug, and its…
I’ve written a couple times about the death of the internet as a cultural engine. The basic argument is that…
Small, sun-bleached billboards read “The Most Scottish Town in Italy” along the winding roads into Barga. Along the road that…
Culture Of an Age, or for All Time? Two new books about Beethoven and Mozart refer us back to the…
Ruth Handler was a girlboss. Her daughter, Barbara, was just a girl playing with baby dolls, to her mother’s chagrin.…
“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows…
Move over, boomers. It’s the millennials’ time now. Greta Gerwig, director and co-writer of Barbie, is a millennial mom. There…