Film Review: Free Solo
The cinematography alone is reason for an unacquainted viewer to see the 2018 climbing documentary Free Solo. The film documents thirty-three-year-old American climber Alex Honnold’s pilgrimage to climb El Capitan: the 3,000-foot vertical sheer granite... Read More
The Comics Section: Assigning Blame and Marching Orders
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
Humanist Halloween: Fake Scares for a Change
These are truly scary times that have nothing to do with Halloween. The anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue four days ago has left us devastated for those killed and injured and mortified... Read More
Film Review: 22 July
Seven years ago—on July 22, 2011—Anders Behring Brevik ignited a car bomb in front of a government building in Oslo, Norway. He then traveled to the island of Utøya, where Norway's Labor Party was hosting... Read More
The Comics Section: Hierarchies of Stupidity and the Party Line
The latest from Jesus and Mo and Raging Pencils!
The Prisoner’s Lament
They want me to be nonviolent, And surround me with violence. They want me to make better choices, And remove all meaningful choice. They want me to respect the law, And entangle me in petty... Read More
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
BY MICHAEL POLLAN PENGUIN PRESS, 2018 480 PP., $28.00 I tried pot late at age twenty-five. Though I’d been an English major who hung out with wannabe Beats and around plenty of pot and acid,... Read More