To the extent that folks think of American Presidents from the second half of the 19th century, most tend to remember Lincoln and then...

Point One: Stephen King is often dismissed as a mediocre wordsmithing machine, cranking out modest midlevel fare, a sort of literary Bon...

By way of context, it's important to note that I was two when Star Wars was released in 1977. The first movie I really recall seeing at a...

This is Us is schmaltzy. It's treacly. It's saccharine mixed with honey poured over platitudes. It's a soap opera, an afterschool special...

When the ravages of the Great Depression swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the White House in the election of 1932, it was not...

First things first: Kristen Bell's leading lady on The Good Place is a terrible human being. She's greedy, lazy, selfish, boozy,...

Top-shelf supervillains like Loki, Thanos, and Magneto are awesome, but a lot of the fun in comics comes from the deep roster of...

I've said it before: The Orville is the best Star Trek we've seen since the heyday of The Next Generation. Seth MacFarlane's passion...

You can see all the brown bears and hear all the polar bears you want. You can feed that hungry caterpillar and stay busy with that...

Part of what made The West Wing such great storytelling was the great characters that populated television's best show. And it wasn't...

I first came across Kozol's writing in college. It was 1995 and I was dating an education major. This book was in her dorm room, and I...

For several years, the sole argument of any merit leveled by DC partisans against the juggernaut artistic and financial success of the...