Hopewell Mysteries

from the BBC The US’ 2,000-year-old mystery mounds By Brandon Withrow (Image credit: Ohio History Connection) Constructed by a mysterious civilisation that left no written records, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are a testament to indigenous...

Goodbye Cruel Worldism

from The Atlantic THE PEOPLE CHEERING FOR HUMANITY’S END A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise. By Adam Kirsch Painting by Reynier Llanes. Home, 2022 (mixed media on paper, 70 x 59 inches). “Man is an invention of recent date....

A Cameron Perspective

from The Hollywood Reporter Inside James Cameron’s Billion-Dollar Bet on ‘Avatar’ The director on spending a decade of his life — not to mention hundreds of Disney’s millions — to make ‘Avatar: The Way of Water,’ the long-awaited second film in his ambitious and risky...

Man Of The Year Gone

from The Wall Street Journal When Time’s ‘Man of the Year’ Meant Something Subjects of the magazine’s annual story were once viewed as secular saints—or, on occasion, devils. By Lance Morrow Time magazine’s Man of the Year selection once was a bigger deal. So, for...