Stop, Look, and Listen
Ken Burns’s "The American Revolution" does justice to America’s complicated birth pangs.
Shadow Play
Streaming Shakespeare
BBC’s The Hollow Crown reminds us the Bard was not an optimist, just a great artist.
Logs on a Fire
Almost Redeemed
He Done His Damdest
Poll-Tested, Not Battle-Tested
Monk’s Tale
The Abolition of Character
Why today’s storytellers are so bad at imagining the future.
Redeeming Laughter
The saving grace of Jewish-American comedy.
The Spirits I Have Summoned, I Cannot Banish Now!
The future of A.I. in Hollywood—and beyond.
Propaganda in Paradise?
James Cameron’s new Avatar meets Xi Jinping’s new China.
The Tragedy of the Commons
TV’s Yellowstone and the conditions of freedom.