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These questions point to a series of unspoken priorities and presumptions behind the current transnational discussion of contemporary “Chinese feminism” — now with quotation marks to create distance ...
Review: "Elio" has a solid premise that, viewed one way, has all the makings of a classic Pixar film. It’s existential but cute.
Elio is a lonely 11-year-old just looking for big answers about life in Pixar's newest movie, in theaters Friday. Feeling ...
Movie Review: An intergalactic, existential adventure about loneliness in Pixar’s ‘Elio’ The Associated Press June 17, 2025, 4:08 PM ...
It’s a solid premise that, viewed one way, has all the makings of a classic Pixar film. It’s existential but cute. It might make you cry and also want to buy a cuddly Glordon toy. Glordon ...
The existential psychologist Irv Yalom (1980) writes about the concept of “personal specialness” as the most common way we deny the idea of death. This “conviction that we are exempt from ...
Angela Davis, the legendary activist, scholar and author known for her decades of work in racial justice, prison abolition and Black feminist thought, will deliver the keynote address at Get Free ...
Every Election Is Now Existential A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world. By Anne Applebaum ...
Hulu’s television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s landmark 1985 feminist novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, has now come to an end. The series focused on female oppression within the imagined ...
A great malaise is upon us, we are told. Prophets of our time warn of a growing “meaning crisis” in the western world. They preach: in this sickly modern age, wrought by secular liberalism, we have ...
The Smithsonian faces an existential crisis. The world is watching. Trump’s effort to oust the director of the National Portrait Gallery could give him absolute control of Smithsonian content.