John Waters

The self-driving car is coming. It is not just possible but a virtual—so to speak—certainty, within perhaps a decade. Continue Reading »

Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a meditation on the notion of culpability carried without the possibility of absolution. 
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If the idea of “live and let live” is applied only to the right of Christians to privately believe in daft ideas, there will come a time when each of us is excluded from the protection of the human community. Continue Reading »

Abortion and gay marriage have entered Northern Ireland by the back door. Continue Reading »

Michel Houellebecq books are documents of an internal forensics of human decline that happen to take the form of stories. Continue Reading »

In the world run by social credit, an individual’s score becomes the ultimate truth of his existence. Continue Reading »

The Twitter bubble renders society deaf, closing the collective conversation off to alternative perspectives. Continue Reading »

The movie Yesterday imagines a world without The Beatles.  Continue Reading »

The old-style newspaper used to behave honorably; now, it has become a branch of the entertainment industry.  Continue Reading »

The pattern of mass shootings may be a symptom of a suicidal culture.  Continue Reading »