The Virtues of Professional Wrestling By Neil Dhingra In terms of book-length philosophical studies of professional wrestling, Douglas Edwards’s thoroughly enjoyable Philosophy Smackdown (2020) claims to be “the first of its kind,” which makes m... Read More...
Counterfactual By John Bauerschmidt Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel, The Man in the High Castle, posits an alternative history, set mostly in a Japanese occupied San Francisco after the Second World War, in which Japan and its... Read More...
Being a Potato Bug Watching Mister Rogers with my children is a constant reminder of how impoverished our culture can be when it comes to childhood.
“Hell is Other People,” but Heaven Can’t Be: The Good Place’s Unintentionally Augustinian Outcome With its final door, The Good Place proves useful for our journey once more: we cannot stop here, we must journey on.
God, Sex, and the Restless Hearts of Fleabag Fleabag paints a nuanced portrait of the soul’s condition in the secular age.
Stranger Things 3: The Spirit of the Mall Stranger Things 3 runs with the torch of kids’ adventure that we rarely see either in fiction or in the culture these days.
Good Omens This is salvation history, but told from the point of view of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
The Chilling Contradictions of Sabrina Sabrina is beset with contradictions that cry out for a resolution within the Christian faith.
