Seth Will always love this piece by Sam Adams about that movie and scene captured New York at the time slate.com/culture/2021/0…

I wrote about Weapons, which gets off to a provocative and terrifying start, and then, I am sorry to say, kind of blows it. slate.com/culture/2025/0…

this rules

Philly! Come see Alexis Soloski read from her spooky/funny/sexy novel Flashout tonight at Head House Books, in conversation with Liz Moore. headhousebooks.com/event/evening-…

New analysis from CBO of the "Big Beautiful Bill" shows the bottom 20% get poorer, not much change for most of America, & the top 10% get meaningfully richer - and that's before tariffs It was the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

I wrote about Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth, a massive, and massively expensive, series that spins out the ideas from one of Ridley Scott's best movies—but not that one. slate.com/culture/2025/0…

Thanks for an amazing concert and dinner Nick Cave and Colin Greenwood!

One of America’s largest transit agencies is gutting itself because the GOP state senate caucus can’t bring itself to tax slot machine style “skill games” that are operating across Pennsylvania with no regulation

"Part of the authoritarian attempt is this sense when you’re living through it that life continues to look normal around you, and you feel slightly schizophrenic.” Gripping interview Slate with #JuliaLoktev and others of #MyUndesirableFriends.

Mike is one of the best, and this decision is one of the worst

that's the Chicago Sun-Times and the Tribune getting rid of their film critics within six months of each other. If they tried to make Siskel and Ebert today it would be two empty chairs.

She also disliked him, FWIW

I wrote about Chris Smith's documentary Devo, a story about how resistance can also be dumb fun. slate.com/culture/2025/0…

literally giving up on humanity seems a bit on the nose

I wrote about #PeacemakerSeason2, which is like Superman retold from his evil clone’s point of view. slate.com/culture/2025/0…

I talked to Long Story Short’s Raphael Bob-Waksman about Jewish families, Robert Altman, and writing Christmas songs. slate.com/culture/2025/0…

The Coen brothers changed my life. I can’t believe how bad Ethan’s movies are. slate.com/culture/2025/0…