Patreon

I wrote about Time Bandits and child abuse.

A list of my 30 favorite albums from this year.

A list of my favorite essays I wrote this year.

 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about all the things Princess Leia got to be.

At Playboy I wrote about sci fi alien sex (and Westworld and Passengers.)

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Dawn Richard’s awesome album Redemption.

—Near Dark and male protagonist dipshits.

—how the judges screwed Laurence Basse on Project Runway.

—how Bowie and Prince didn’t live in a better time.

—how to support free speech you shouldn’t give a fascist a book deal.

At the Chicago Reader I wrote a brief review of hardcore band Udusic.

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News

Kit Power said my Hammer Dracula book was one of the best nonfiction reads of the year.

Anita McDaniel reviewed my Wonder Woman book at the American Journal of Communications.
 
On Patreon

I published an unpaywalled 4000 word piece on how men are targeted for violence, and why MRAs make things worse.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the LA Times I wrote about identity politics and being Jewish at Christmas in the age of Trump.

At Quartz I wrote about

—Rogue One’s underwhelming visuals.

—my top ten bandcamp albums of the year.

At Religion Dispatches I argued that it’s not immoral to believe in miracles.

At Splice Today I wrote

—on Euzhan Palcy’s A Dry White Season and mainstream compromise.

—that both Sanders and Clinton ran decent campaigns.
 

News

I released a little ebook on American political films. Buy one!
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about

—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as camp antiwar masterpiece.

—Bernie Sanders and picking up Trump’s political correctness talking points.

At the Establishment I wrote about It’s a Wonderful Life as bleak Trump-era paean to white male resentment.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—how the media’s handling of the DNC emails was unethical even if it wasn’t a Russian plot.

—the smug gods of Westworld.

—Clueless as an assimilation fantasy.
 

 
Patreon

On the Black Mirror episode “Men Against Fire”, and how its take on fascism is already out of date.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about Loving, and pushing back against Trump-era stereotypes of black people and white people.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—why voters voted for Trump. Economics? racism? or identity?

—Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy and naked guys in the woods.

At the Reader I wrote about New Zealand metal band Ulcerate.