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‘A Perfect World’: Clint Eastwood’s Masterpiece on Masculinity

Rudolph Lambert Fernandez Rudolph Lambert Fernandez is an independent writer who writes on culture and society. mercatornet.com The year 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece on masculinity. The plot, set in 1960s Texas, follows escaped convict, the benign Butch Haynes (Kevin Costner) who takes eight-year-old

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The Seven Best Books of 2023

Leighan M Renaud, Florian Stadtler, Simon Potter University of Bristol Andrew Dix Loughborough University Dominic Broomfield-McHugh University of Sheffield Jane O’Connor Birmingham City University Madeleine S Killacky Bangor University We have covered a lot of new releases this year but these seven really impressed our experts. There’s a

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Welcome to the Dying Earth

Haley Kynefin Haley Kynefin is a writer and independent social theorist with a background in behavioral psychology. She left academia to pursue her own path integrating the analytical, the artistic and the realm of myth. Her work explores the history and sociocultural dynamics of power. brownstone.org Welcome to The

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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor Biography Revels in Scandal and Excess of Hollywood Glamour Couple

Melanie Williams Professor of Film and Television Studies University of East Anglia Roger Lewis’s biographies are always rich, wayward, engrossing, idiosyncratic and above all obsessive, which seems entirely fitting for evoking the particular qualities of his latest subject – the celebrity couple to end them all, Richard Burton and Elizabeth

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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Is a Fast-Paced Slapstick Extravaganza

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Is a Fast-Paced Slapstick Extravaganza

Oliver Gingrich Programme Lead BA (Hons) Animation Min Young Oh Lecturer in Animation University of Greenwich Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget combines the distinctive charm of the Great Escape-esque story that characterised the original Chicken Run (2000), with an action-packed plot, staged in a futuristic setting fit for

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They Want to Cancel Linehan

They Want to Cancel Linehan

Steven Tucker Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer with over 10 books to his name. His next, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science, comparing the woke pseudoscience of today to the totalitarian pseudoscience of the past, will be published in summer 2023. mercatornet.com Tough Crowd: How I

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Another Paul Moon Delight

Another Paul Moon Delight

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The most influential person in my life was a school-teacher, Guy Bliss, who back in 1956 preached to the school’s first 6th form (about 6 of us in his history class (the rest had fled at 15, then the school leaving age, mainly for factory

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The Young Rupert Murdoch Knew What He Wanted

The Young Rupert Murdoch Knew What He Wanted

Rodney Tiffen University of Sydney theconversation.com Nearly every biographical commentary on Rupert Murdoch notes how he began with a modest inheritance in Adelaide, principally an afternoon newspaper, and built it into a global multimedia empire. Walter Marsh’s book Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire has the

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The A-Bomb of Our Time

The A-Bomb of Our Time

L Matthew Meyers L Matthew Myers is a data-driven financial, media, and policy analyst. His work has appeared in over 20 major publications, and he has published extensively on toxicology, health sciences, biotech, and pharmaceuticals. brownstone.org Oppenheimer is an epic film, and an extraordinary cinematic achievement. Writer-Director Christopher Nolan’

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River of Freedom Premieres September 5

River of Freedom Premieres September 5

dailytelegraph.co.nz New Zealand film RIVER OF FREEDOM is set to release next month, with film premiere events in Auckland on September 5th at The Civic, Christchurch on September 6th at Hoyts Riccarton, and Wellington on September 7th at The Embassy. Following the premieres, New Zealand audiences will have

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The Wuhan Cover Up, by RFKJr.

The Wuhan Cover Up, by RFKJr.

Robert Malone brownstone.org Robert W. Malone is a physician and biochemist. His work focuses on mRNA technology, pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. You can find him at Substack and Gettr The title of US Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new book, The Wuhan Cover Up, does not

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Dreadful ‘Fascist’ Barbie Dominates the Cinema

Tim Graham Tim Graham is the Executive Editor at NewsBusters, and he is the Director of  Media Analysis at the Media Research Center. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era. PA Pundits – International

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How the Soviets Stole Nuclear Secrets and Targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’

How the Soviets Stole Nuclear Secrets and Targeted Oppenheimer, the ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’

Calder Walton Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School “Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’

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Barbie Is Stunning in Stilettos but Could She Ever Be a Mother?

Barbie Is Stunning in Stilettos but Could She Ever Be a Mother?

Kimberly Ells Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. One of the brightest moments of my young life was when I got TWO Barbies (one blonde, one brunette) for Christmas. So on wings of nostalgia but feeling undercurrents of dread, I set

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