Is Now and Then Really a New Beatles Song? Now and Then, a “new” Beatles song, was uploaded to YouTube on November 3 (or thereabouts) and 5 days later had 23 million views. I should begin by saying that this is not really an analysis of the song itself, which…

Does Technology Undermine Intuition and Synchronicity? The simplest definition of synchronicity is a meaningful coincidence. The International Association For Analytical Psychology gets a bit more technical: “an acausal connecting principle.” The term, of course, was coined by psychologist Carl Jung, who explained it with an anecdote. One of Jung’s patients…

Joker (2019), directed by Todd Phillips, is an example of how a movie can be highly flawed and highly derivative in some ways and still be significant. Though the story is uneven and ambiguous and the Joker himself (Joaquin Phoenix) isn’t a very coherently constructed character, the film manages to…

This photo is evidence of my nerdy travel habits over the last 10 or so years. I always like to have at least one book to read and usually another to listen to. If you laud the tangible pleasures of physical books, I wouldn’t argue. However, when you’re traveling frequently…

Old Joke: Q: Why did God create WASPs? A: Someone has to buy retail! If so, WASPs (this rather dated term means White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) may be an endangered species. …

Marcus Collins straddles the worlds of marketing and academia, as the head of strategy at Wieden + Kennedy while also a professor of marketing at the University of Michigan. In For The Culture, he shares a combination of scholarship and personal insights based on his experiences. You can read For…

Vengeance, the 2022 comedy-mystery drama starring and directed by B.J. Novak, is a surprisingly compelling and thoughtful film. Based on the title and seeing the trailer, you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s another thriller in the desert entry, with the usual Tarantino, Coen Brothers, and other 90s, 2000s influences. …

I was not familiar with Kat Timpf before listening to her audiobook, You Can’t Joke About That. This isn’t really significant or surprising, as she’s best known as a Fox commentator and I haven’t watched any cable news programs in over a decade. She’s also a comic but unless someone’s…

It may seem strange to review a book, especially nonfiction, written over a half-century ago. The topics covered by Jane Jacobs (1916–2006), however, are just as relevant today as when she started covering them in the mid-20th century. In that respect, I find reading her today equally fascinating and depressing. …