Eileen’s Tragic Regionalism
How a tense New England character study highlights the limits of local color.
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In Loco Parentis
A review of Ian Prior’s Parents of the World Unite!: How to Save Our Schools from the Left’s Radical Agenda.
Review: Daily Wire's Lady Ballers
The conservative company tries to trigger their way to the top
Let the Debate Begin
College Football Playoff selection stokes major controversy as Alabama sneaks in
The Patience of Job
The Shift brings authentic moral weight to the multiverse genre.
Eli Roth’s Society of the Spectacle
With Thanksgiving, a titan of horror proves he’s also one of America’s most savage social critics.
College Football Regular Season Wrap-Up
Tennessee and Vanderbilt tie a bow on 2023 Conference Play as Vols prepare for Bowl Game
Radical Objectivity
A review of Jeff Fynn-Paul’s 'Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World'
Chip's Harvest
What a sixty-three-year-old sitcom can teach us about the folly of "land acknowledgments"
Nashville’s Taylor Era
Rediscovering the suburban roots of the world’s biggest popstar may be the city’s only way to stave off its decline.
David Fincher’s Violence as a Service
'The Killer' shows how expendable art makes for expendable lives.
Tennessee Sports Hit All-Time Low
Titans, Griz, Nashville SC, Preds, Dores, and Vols all in perennial sports purgatory
A Little Less Conversation
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla sidesteps the melodrama to depict the Presleys’ interior worlds.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
A review of Tucker by Chadwick Moore
Predators Look to Get On Track During Western Road Trip
Early Andrew Brunette era has been a mixed bag as new unit deals with growing pains