The Magazine

I see a lot of movies in theaters. I will try my best to summarize my thoughts from whatever recent films I saw, for as long as necessary.

AEW has revolutionized professional wrestling, but it still has room for improvement, especially regarding diversity.

In the Kingist myth, MLK was a superhuman; this is more damaging than it sounds.

I just ordered my second pair of Atreyu Running shoes. Atreyu is a Texas-based running shoe company that began a few years ago by offering shoe subscriptions. You paid a […]

Senators don’t wear togas anymore. They don’t glide towards the forum clutching six yards of white fabric rimmed in blood-red, but they are inheritors of the Roman legacy. They still […]

I’ve written before that I believe our existence has a high probability of being a computer simulation, a matrix. I still believe this, in a sense, and I can also […]

In conventional wisdom, it’s cute and common to say that Democrats and Republicans have switched positions on race. The conventional cuteness says that Democrats were racists until the early 70s […]

So, I have a two part question: does America exist to the duracells plugged into the matrix, and does American history exist?

We’ve covered many of the ways the events of that day are still impacting us now, but are they enough for it to add up to being an inflection point in human history?

If the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, somebody should have told the Confederates.

I’ll never recapture the high of watching it for the first time, but this December, I get to go back to the Matrix. All you Reloaded and Revolutions haters can just stay asleep and ignorant in the world The Matrix created.

Matrix Resurrections premieres on December 22, 2021, and I demand answers.

The Electoral College isn’t a term in the US Constitution. It’s a construction that allows us to envision the collective body of electors who choose the president.

I hope these tips help, and whatever you do, please don’t go out Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving evening. I promise you don’t need to, and the store employees will hate you.

If you like Lord of the Rings and The Witcher or if the dragons are your favorite part of Game of Thrones, The Wheel of Time won’t disappoint. 

During lockdown, Sylvester Stallone finally found the time he needed to revisit the wildest Rocky movie and give us the product he always wanted.

Racism is never a popular political strategy in U.S. politics because if it is popular, none dare call it racism.

What constitutes a holy war?

The Jedi Order as depicted in the Star Wars franchise is an organizational nightmare. It makes less than zero sense. Shall we count the ways?

Facebook (the corporation, not the social media site) is going for a rebrand. Announced in late October, the company will now be known as Meta. A term most famously used […]

Critical Race Theory in schools has taken a new turn in political news.

Slavery is not a natural condition, despite what American slaveholders said.

A catastrophic fire broke out in Rome in 64 CE. As the legend goes, Nero Caesar was too consumed with fiddling while massive swathes of the city were destroyed. Some […]

The Battle Between AEW and WWE In case you’re not a fan and haven’t been keeping up, WWE has effectively held a monopoly in North American wrestling ever since Vince […]

Midnight Mass is one of the most interesting shows I’ve watched in a long time*. The show is essentially a long, slow rumination on the nature of faith. The characters […]

There is something special about live music. It’s hard to put your finger on, but there’s really nothing quite like it.

Don’t want to be an American Idiot? In Part 2, we talked about America’s domestic and foreign response to the 9/11 attacks as well as the waxing and waning of […]

I’m not a connoisseur of science-fiction and fantasy; I’m a glutton. Connoisseurs consume only the finest examples of a product. Gluttons will take whatever and as much as they can […]

No matter your favorite college football team, you’ve taken an embarrassing loss. Even perennial juggernaut Alabama (Roll Tide) has taken some shameful Ls. I witnessed a few of them in […]

Want more Squid Game? Here’s 10 ways to get your fix till season 2.

Welcome back. Who’s ready to deep dive more into 9/11? Anyone? Everyone? In part one, I tried my best at crudely approximating what 9/11 means to a New Yorker (or […]

Everything is political. That statement isn’t as controversial as it once was. The era of color blindness and objectivity is behind us. Republicans in particular have taken some dire steps […]

This past weekend marked the twentieth anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks. I vaguely remember being 11 in sixth grade and watching as the smoke rose into lower Manhattan’s […]

Football season is officially back. With 2 full weeks of college games and the first week of NFL games in the books, it doesn’t seem like anything has changed. The […]

Ancient history doesn’t always get much attention in high school and college. Unless you’re a history major or deliberately take ancient history electives, you probably won’t encounter much of the […]

Before Europeans set foot in the Americas (Vikings excepted), it was a world full of diverse civilizations. The Chico Norte civilization in modern-day Peru arose about the same time as […]

Danielle Bregoli, now known professionally as Bhad Bhabie, became internet famous back in 2016 when she (then only 13 years old) appeared on the popular daytime talk show Dr. Phil […]

I promise this title isn’t clickbait. The first season of Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso was as close to perfect as a single camera sitcom can be. Ted Lasso season 2 […]

“Says Red Molly, to James, ‘Well, that’s a fine motorbike. A girl could feel special on any such a like.’ Says James to Red Molly, “My hat’s off to you. […]

Rome captured the popular imagination of the Western World almost immediately after it ceased to exist. The (Western) Roman Empire fell in 476 CE. Almost immediately after, Westerners were attempting […]

Is Native American beer (tiswin) beer? By German law, beer can only consist of barley, water, hops, and yeast. There are thousands of variations on that basic recipe. The type […]

I’m going to say something I never thought I would say and that would break the heart of 12-year old me: outer space is boring. It’s really really boring. Well, […]

Star Wars debuted in 1977 and essentially redefined the science-fiction film genre. Sci-fi books had long been serious, contemplative affairs. Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Philip K Dick, and other members […]

I’ve recently come to a depressing realization. No matter how hard I try to avoid it, I am a materialist. That is not an easy thing for me to admit. […]

We could be living in a matrix – a computer generated simulation. If we were, you would likely never know, and it would likely never matter. I don’t mean that […]

Since Action Comics #1 in 1938, Lois Lane has been Superman’s partner. She’s changed actors plenty of times, and the characterizations all differ; however, a few things remain constant. She […]

The Fullbright Company’s Gone Home debuted in 2013, and while it didn’t create the walking simulator genre, it has come to define it. As noted by IGN, the walking simulators […]

This past June, C-SPAN released an updated United States Presidential ranking. This was their 4th installment of the rankings. Beginning in 2000 and following each change of administration in 2009 […]

A civic religion is more than just a system of beliefs that we might consider “religious,” as in, supernatural. A civic religion is a set of beliefs, customs, and symbols […]

Even if you don’t care about Major League Baseball, you may want to start paying attention to the season that Shohei Ohtani is having with the Los Angeles Angels. We […]