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HBO’s cultural hegemony is in decline.

The shockingly negative reaction to “Game of Thrones’” final season is just the most vulgar sign of its faded fortunes.

The proliferation of all …
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Five years ago, I served as a congressional intern in Washington, DC and on Capitol Hill for a Member of the United States Congress.

No reason other than my interest …
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Nineteen years ago I rode to Sturgis with my best chum Tom Delaney.

We began in Yankton where Tom loaned me a Road King. As we headed west we joined …
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Cineplex Odeon once played a pair of Universal horror staples, Tod Browning’s “Dracula” and James Whale’s “Frankenstein,” as part of its Classic Film Series.

While I can watch Whale’s film …
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Halloween is my favorite time of year!

Great scary movies abound across the TV landscape. I recently re-watched Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” and I figured a tennis racket solves the …
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I’ve been an avid movie watcher for 20 years.

By 2015 I was seeing, on average, three films a week at the theater alone. By mid-2016, I got the idea, …
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In Part One of this series, I brought up a question few are asking: what are the victory conditions of the Culture War?

The monopolistic control over mass media that …
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What are the victory conditions for the Culture War? What would winning even look like for conservatives?

Everybody wants to fight it (or, let’s face it, look like they’re fighting …
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How much time do you spend reading? Binging Netflix? Hallmark holiday movie marathon, anyone?

Even if you are stupid, crazy, insanely busy like I am, I bet it’s a lot.

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I was fifteen years old. Just got my driver’s permit. Just asked a girl on a date. Just discovered The Clash. Just diagnosed with Leukemia.

Needless to say it was …
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