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Every year during March Madness, NCAA basketball fans participate in the ritual conversation about whether college athletes should be paid for their labor. At present, many students are offered scholarships but not paid beyond that scholarship, nor do they have…
In his new film, “Unsane,” Steven Soderbergh has come close to the cinematic equivalent of Flaubert’s dream of “a book about nothing.” The subject of the film—a hectically intense thriller about a young woman named Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy) who…
Photograph by Interfoto / Alamy Photograph by Kevin Mazur / Getty for March For Our Lives Since the mass shooting on Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, in which a former student of the school…
(Caution: This review contains spoilers) I went into Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time with my eyes wide open. I was well aware that, in the process of Disneyfication, much of author Madeleine L’Engle’s spiritual subtext would inevitably…
Our society is changing more rapidly than ever before. The direction in which it’s moving has been set by social progressives, who have steadily dismantled its codes, commitments, and other external obstacles that stand between individuals and their desires. In…
At the outset, it looked like things could get pretty grim at the National Institutes of Health under President Donald Trump. As a candidate, he said he had heard “terrible” things about the nation’s premier medical research institute. In his…
