Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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Top Gun: Maverick is the most successful film in a storied career and perhaps the best case study of movie stardom over time of all time. Cruise portrays the same character 36 years apart, and makes it clear that nothing has really changed for either him or Maverick, onscreen or off. Tom Cruise is the… Continue reading The timelessness of Tom Cruise, the last movie star
A reporter at The Washington Post rants for days on end over an off-color joke, attacking her colleagues and the company she works for in public, and playing the victim card while another is suspended without pay for a quickly deleted retweet followed by a prompt apology. How long can any institution last when the… Continue reading The joke heard round the world of the woke
A former Hollywood power couple’s dirty laundry is aired on national television via a highly publicized defamation trial, garnering millions of viewers and billions of clips online, but progressives insist there is some hidden meaning about the fate of the #MeToo movement to be found. Apparently, we’re supposed to believe the accuser even when she… Continue reading #MeToo: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and whatever this mess means in modern America
The story is tragically familiar: Every mass shooting is followed by impassioned pleas for more gun control, but no attention is paid to how frequently our current laws fail or why our culture seems incapable of spotting the obvious signs that an attack. Let me begin by saying that I’m a believer in the Second… Continue reading Choose culture and competency over gun control
They’d never suspend a black player for poking fun at a white player for comparing himself to Babe Ruth. Unless Major League Baseball plans to ban trash talk in general, what’s the difference here? Last weekend, the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox were enmeshed in a bases clearing incident over comments made between… Continue reading Jackie Robinson: Never take his name in vain
Meet the “Menstrual Dignity Act” which requires every school in Oregon to offer free supplies for “menstruating students” in both boys and girls bathrooms in elementary school. The act is part of a broader set of equity initiatives covering everything from mathematics to CRT. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is taking these ideas national with 90… Continue reading Tampons in kindergarten bathrooms for boys should be peak insanity, but there’s more to come
I was twelve years old when Queensryche released their rock opera, combining hair metal essentials with a subversive storyline about a heroin addicted assassin working for an underground revolution. For me, it radically changed my perspective on what a genre could be, introducing concepts I’d learn more about and fully embrace in the years to… Continue reading Operation: Mindcrime: How Queensryche’s masterful concept album changed my life
Ibram X. Kendi is very concerned that online gaming has become a hotbed of white supremacist recruitment, and the only real protection we can offer to prevent this indoctrination is to indoctrinate the kids with antiracism. Of course, if you disagree, you are a white supremacist yourself. Who could’ve guess it? You know things aren’t… Continue reading Critical Race Theory: A leading antiracist puts forward a radical, ridiculous new theory as to why this corrosive ideology is essential in schools
Somehow, some media outlets have decided that white people are to blame for the infamous slap, or at least white people are making it worse, or white people have done worse, or something, so long as everyone understands a hugely successful actor cannot be responsible for their own actions. I suppose it was inevitable that… Continue reading Will Smith is whiter than I am
Unlike his previous work, this is a tight, personal film about the experiences of a nine year old boy in a Belfast riven by The Troubles, thirty years of riots and retaliations among warring factions of adults that a child of such a young age is incapable of making any sense of. The only thing… Continue reading Kenneth Branagh’s brilliant “little” Belfast
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 