It’s been a few days since Prince Philip died and I’ve been observing how the media portrays him and his legacy, and I have thoughts concerning how we have this idea that we have to be respectful of the dead (especially if they were symbols) and so we can’t really…

Sometimes I feel like I am drowning in a sea of information, misinformation and disinformation. Social media allows us to access millions of articles, news, and comments written by people we know and by people we don’t know, by people we used to know, but don’t remember anymore, or by…

Each year, in the months of November and December, I take some time to reflect on my year and to think about the word that I want my next year to be defined by. I started this practice of choosing a word for the year about four years ago. It…

We call it “Social Distancing” even if some experts, including the World Health Organization, have said that this is not the best way to call it because social contacts are vital to cope with the crisis. Northeastern University Political Science and Public Policy professor, Daniel Aldrich, has suggested the term…

Star Wars is one of those things I grew up loving. I love the original trilogy, I sort of enjoy the prequels (despite them being objectively bad), I have sort of enjoyed the spin-offs, I’ve watched some of the series, and I liked the more recent films in the saga…

Juliet, Naked is a 2018 film directed by Jesse Peretz, written by Evgenia Peretz, Jim Taylor, Tamara Jenkins and Phil Alden Robinson, and it is based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby. It stars Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke and Chris O’Dowd. It tells the story of…

Boy, was it a scandal when Disney announced that the new Ariel for the remake of the Disney classic The Little Mermaid would be singer and actor Halle Bailey. Because we have a little time on our hands, just a little, let’s talk about the new hot topic. …