Emina Melonic

Jan 21, 2025 | thefederalist.com | Emina Melonic

Achieving erotic vision on the silver screen is not an easy task for a film director. It can quickly fall into an abyss of total embarrassment or pornography. A new film, “Babygirl” (2024), doesn’t fall completely into either abyss, but it never truly realizes its potential. Directed by Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn, “Babygirl” focuses on Romy Mathis (Nicole Kidman), a CEO of a powerful tech company on the cutting edge of automation. She is, by all the cliched means, a woman in power.

Jan 21, 2025 | conservativereview.com | Emina Melonic

Jan 21, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Ilya Shapiro |James Patterson |Emina Melonic

with Ilya Shapiro, hosted by James M. Patterson A poorly worded tweet became a career-altering conflagration for Ilya Shapiro in a particularly egregious example of cancel culture. It prompted him to take a hard look at the state of legal education, which he now skewers in Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elite. He and host James Patterson discuss the book, the atrocious impact critical theory and DEI has had on our law schools, and what the future might hold.

Jan 20, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Reuven Brenner |David Schaefer |Elizabeth Matthew |Emina Melonic

Politicians and economists promise higher standards of living. Are there reliable, objective measures to help determine when their policies are achieving this goal? At present, most analyses of the question draw primarily on aggregate numbers computed regularly in every country, offered with little commentary on their reliability, either conceptual or in measurement.

Jan 20, 2025 | lawliberty.org | Timothy Snyder |David Schaefer |Elizabeth Matthew |Emina Melonic

It is always a shame when an author one respects for his main writings, publishes a book that is an absolute disappointment. This is what happened when reading On Freedom by Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian and author of rightfully acclaimed books such as Bloodlands, on the genocidal twentieth-century history of the region between Central Poland and Western Russia. In contrast, On Freedom is a political pamphlet, a peculiar mix of memoir, history, philosophy, commentary, and societal criticism.