When Burning Man, the radical arts festival and temporary city erected in the Nevada desert each year, announced that the theme for 2017’s event was “Radical Ritual”—derived from religious symbologies worldwide—many regular attendees viewed this... Read More

ONE OF THE MOST SAVAGE reviews ever written was published in 1818 in response to a collection of verse by a somewhat unknown poet. The critic, John Wilson Croker, declared, “the author is a copyist... Read More

Westworld condenses the character, theme and plot developments of an entire television series into just its first season. No sooner do we discover that a character has the motivation to commit an act than they commit... Read More

Having recently discovered the music of Queen and delving into the life of its fabulous frontman, Freddie Mercury, I uncovered a critical commonality: he and I were both raised in homes made rigid by religion.... Read More

For many of us, this has been a tumultuous and enormously divisive presidential election season with very high stakes, but we’re finally at the finish line. Whether you’ll start working on your Canada immigration papers... Read More

Though atheism is sometimes criticized for not having musical traditions as the world’s religions do (an erroneous assumption that we have debunked), rock music has long been dismissed as godless or “the devil’s music.” Even... Read More

With the appointment of Adolf Hitler as German Chancellor in 1933 came the rise of the Third Reich and the beginning of one of the darkest periods in Europe's history. That same year, the first... Read More