Category: Arts

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely…

Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference…

What would you say at Twitter’s funeral? That’s the question my collaborators and I asked…

For the past few years, right-wing media have argued that the U.S. is plagued by…

I don’t often watch movies in a theater, let alone horror films. But a few…

“7 Mile + Livernois” at the Detroit Institute of Arts celebrates Detroit as a place…

Have you ever noticed how a particular song can bring back a flood of memories?…

With the release of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II,” audiences will be plunged back into the…

Rockets aren’t the only thing Elon Musk is sending into the stratosphere. After a three-year…

Neither “Gladiator” nor its cinematic sequel is particularly concerned with historical fact. For one thing,…