October 2, 2022
Noted: Anglican Homophobes, ‘Rings of Power’ and Beth Ditto
A selection of James Killough's prolific posts on Facebook, from the first week in September 2022. ...
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August 22, 2022
Cousin Athol’s Portrait of Helmut Newton
An portrait of Helmut Newton by Athol Shmith from 1957 establishes a personal connection with Newton's "mysterious" years in Melbourne. ...
June 26, 2022
An Epistle To Liberals on Religion and Procedures
If Satan is a trickster, he's fooling everyone by hiding in plain sight, in every religion, spiritual and temporal, and in every social-justice platform that turns a blind eye in the name of not giving offense....
June 12, 2022
The Three‑Body Problem of ‘The Secrets of Dumbledore’
The final installment of the 'Fantastic Beasts' trilogy is a welcome evolution in the way gay men are portrayed in mass-market cinema. Sadly, there are other considerable problems that prevent it from its full potential as an instrument of change....
May 19, 2022
One of Those Many Times I Forgot Myself
A gay man crushes on some of "the most beautiful women in the world" in an era before sexual fluidity....
May 16, 2022
SCOTUS: A Thousand Inquisitions Now
A Times opinion piece prompts concern that so many devout Catholics on the Supreme Court, kneeling to the world's only absolute monarch, might be an existential threat to America's foundational ethos....
March 24, 2022
Quick Crit: ‘After Yang,’ ‘WeCrashed,’ and Tarun Tahiliani
This week's sample-sized reviews of random filmed content gets personal. If anyone's ever wondered just how big and fat the Indian wedding market is in monetary terms, we were there for its birth as a real industry in 1988....
March 11, 2022
It’s Time to Start Using the F‑Word About Russia
Why is it that people constantly use 'fascist' for staunch liberal democracies like America and Israel, but not Russia and China? They consistently meet textbook definitions of the F-word, but nobody's reading....
March 2, 2022
All Solid on the Western Front
Just as Trump was a four-year stress test of the strength of American democracy, Putin is showing those who doubted the cohesion of the Free World that it has never been weak, or truly threatened....
January 23, 2022
‘1883’ and Its Pretzels of Conflict Between Anglos and Euros
Only midseason, the subtext about American cultural and racial relationships Taylor Sheridan's prequel to 'Yellowstone,' are already intellectually weighty enough for a few dissertations....