The COVID pandemic has forced us to confront our own mortality, with many interesting results.
Mortality in the Age of COVID
An Interesting Transition
Trump refuses to concede as Biden prepares to move back in.
Cooked Turkey: Erdogan’s Middle East Misadventures
How Turkey overplayed its hand at Middle Eastern diplomacy
Weird Art and What It Can Teach Us: Laloux’s “Fantastic Planet” and Anthropocentrism
What makes humans any better than the other creatures we coexist with? Rene Laloux’s 1973 French cartoon “Fantastic Planet” pushes the reader to grapple with this exact question through a world full of aliens who see human beings as nothing more than pests. This fantastical film puts a mirror up to the human race and forces the audience to ask themselves, “am I part of the problem?”
Debate Night Three: A Narrow Biden Victory
President Trump made a strong case for his reelection, but it was too little too late.
The Texas Orator 