Pluribus Is a Primal Cry Against Our Culture of Brain Rot

and a celebration of the angry female antihero

Dec 12, 2025 • Arielle Bernstein

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A Very Long Quarter Century

Blogging was everything, until it was nothing

Dec 5, 2025 • Gabe Bullard

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November 2025

The Melancholy Magic of the Before Sunrise Trilogy

An interview with Andrew Bertaina, author of ETHAN HAWKE & ME

Nov 3, 2025 • Arielle Bernstein and Gabe Bullard

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October 2025

Know When to Fold ‘em

Gambling, hustle culture, and the ads during sports broadcasts

Oct 24, 2025 • Gabe Bullard

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September 2025

The Rehearsal is TV’s Most Provocative Show About Empathy

The show’s central claim is as simple as it is profound: empathy is hard.

Sep 19, 2025 • Arielle Bernstein

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August 2025

Neil Postman Always Rings Twice

First as tragedy, then as farce

Aug 15, 2025 • Gabe Bullard

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July 2025

In Defense of Artifice

On Wes Anderson and the unexplainable side of style

Jul 17, 2025 • Gabe Bullard

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The Uncanny Valley of Digital Pop Culture Discourse

What the response to Sabrina Carpenter's album cover teaches us

Jul 9, 2025 • Arielle Bernstein

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June 2025

The Persistence of Commodified Memory

Life after these messages

Jun 6, 2025 • Gabe Bullard

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May 2025

The Age of Robot Women

Why the best films about female robots flip the gender script

May 23, 2025 • Arielle Bernstein

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April 2025

I Don’t Want To See You, You Seem Bored

On the crass commercialism of video podcasts

Apr 25, 2025 • Gabe Bullard

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Can Great TV Encourage Connection?

Rethinking the narrative that TV increases loneliness

Apr 11, 2025 • Arielle Bernstein, Gabe Bullard, and Together, Alone

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