Robot dud: Review of The Electric State on...

Yes, I watched it after 13 hours on the interstate. And yes, the kids were making a racket in the next room. But the new Netflix movie by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, of Avengers: Endgame fame, would have been a disaster in even the most tranquil of circumstances. Screen it in a one-man space […]

The turkey wrap secret to show business success

I’m at the age where a lot of my contemporaries have children just starting out, and despite every economic indication coming out of Hollywood, a lot of them want to work in show business. Every now and then, since I have been a writer and showrunner, I’m asked by friends if I’ll talk to their […]

The party of Karens

Overall, white voters (who made up 71% of the electorate in 2024) overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump by a 15-point margin (57%-42%). But as NBC’s Steve Kornacki highlighted in his latest polling, when you drill down by gender and education, there are “pronounced gender and education gaps” among white voters. White men with and […]

Michael Lewis shows off government

Nobody needs to do one-handed handstand pushups. If you’re strong enough to push yourself off the ground on one hand while in a candlestick position, then you can do so many other more productive, more conventional exercises. But sometimes, you want to give yourself a challenge to show off. Sometimes, you gotta pop out, as […]

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