Review of the New Dune Movie
It's by far the best cinematic version of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel.
It's by far the best cinematic version of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel.
Cato economist Ryan Bourne's new book is a much-needed rejoinder to the obtuse economic reasoning of many pandemic-era policy makers.
Just like the characters, this short-lived sci-fi show makes a mysterious return years later.
This is Denis Villeneuve's movie, but it's fully Frank Herbert's Dune.
Context, tradeoffs, and preferences matter—both in parenting and outside of it.
Sci-fi novelist Sarah Pinsker's new book deals with the ways technology shapes how we conceive of the inner self.
Sohrab Ahmari's case for tradition conceals an authoritarian agenda.
Both literally and in terms of quality
In the new sci-fi novel, humanity manages to save itself not with social revolution but through reason, technology, and innovation.
Harm reduction invites a radical reconsideration of the way the government deals with politically disfavored intoxicants.
We can stop obsessing about Islamic terrorists crossing the Southern border.
A new book explores how New York has transformed itself since the crises of the 1970s.
A new book pulls the curtain back—but only partway.
What happened when some indigenous people took their lands back from the state
Nice Racism—and the "anti-racism" consulting business—rakes in the bucks while losing hearts and minds.
With panic in the air, federal law enforcement seized the moment.
That time a civil rights activist teamed up with Richard Nixon to build a black-run town in rural North Carolina
The book argues that judges should take their responsibility as gatekeepers of scientific and technical evidence more seriously.
Historian Vincent Brown's new book examines the 18th-century slave insurrection, arguing it was really four different wars at once.
America's approach to capital punishment changed in the 1970s. It's time for another look.
If social insurance plans had been designed by libertarian-leaning policy mechanics, what might they have produced?
In Zack Snyder's latest, zombies are a public health issue, much like COVID-19.
The show perfectly encapsulates the feelings of grief, confusion, and isolation born of the pandemic.
Too Close and The Underground Railroad provide wildly different experiences.
In her new memoir, journalist Tracy Clark-Flory weaves in a quarter-century of cultural advice, warnings, and gripes about the sex lives of millennials.
To Austin Rogers, the trio of temptations presented to Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew has key political implications.
The integralist right's foolish crush on the man who once ruled Portugal
Retired FBI agent Ali Soufan argues that the agency's thirst for torture made it harder to protect Americans.
For sci fi fans who enjoy getting lost in internet rabbit holes
People are people and politics is politics, no matter how far you get from planet Earth.
As France fell to Nazi Germany, America's elites glanced nervously eastward and began to envision the U.S. as the new defender of global order.
Didion reminds us that while youth culture and political leaders may change, our underlying drives and delusions seldom do.
It strains credulity to believe random tweets can lead otherwise normal people to drive across the country and stage an insurrection.
A new book aims to reveal the rest of Mary Wollstonecraft's worldview beyond her support for women's rights
Despite some interesting tidbits, a new history of the game falls short.
Oh look, two mismatched government agents investigating alien technology.
While we're at it, was it really a revolution?
The desire to know one's fortune seems to be an instinctive human urge.
Gerry Reith's raw, paranoid, apocalyptic fables were shot through with distrust for just about every institution around.
As long as there have been American elections, foreign powers have sought to influence them.