Stories about the wealthy being subjected to misfortune have scratched a schadenfreude itch for centuries. Now novels are turning the tables on us ...

After the preschool years, kids still like cartoons, but they want something more complex than straightforward messages about friendship and sharing. They like a bit of conflict, some bad guys (who ...

Just about every movie directed by Bong Joon-ho has social commentary about class and wealth, but which of them stands as the ...

Sometimes the world just needs to see Robert Pattinson in space with a strange accent, and “Mickey 17” is here to satisfy ...

Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, the nightly boys stayed away from politics. That can be a funnier tack, if one that is more removed ...

There are countless remakes of movies, but what about movies about remakes? Bong Joon Ho’s new movie, Mickey 17, his first ...

While the latest offering from Oscar-winning South Korean director Bong Joon-ho will be at the top of most cinephiles’ anticipated films of 2025 list, his long-awaited (six years, to be precise) ...

Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 is a galaxy-brained swing that seems destined to become some weirdo’s favorite movie. Bless them.

But we would all be better off if Adam Smith had skipped the bit about “the invisible hand.” He meant little, if anything, by it—he used the term only once in the entire two volumes of The Wealth of ...

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Can Gen Z truly opt out of capitalism? Idealists may not like the answer, but the only way to truly flout capitalism is to first achieve financial freedom by engaging with, yes, capitalism.

White Lotus strives for more “important” prestige profile as a series with searing, incisive things to say about Big Ideas (class, race, capitalism, etc) and achieved an unearned reputation as a ...