Joseph Holmes

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Bruno Macaes |Graham McAleer |Michael Lucchese |Joseph Holmes

Techno-futurists commonly believe that a totally human-made future will advance individual liberty. Bruno Maçães is doubtful, arguing in World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics that the future will more likely see us living inside a metaverse crafted by one of the superpowers.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Joseph Holmes |Bruno Meyerhof Salama |Max J. Prowant |John O. McGinnis

Everyone seems crazy about Severance. One of the first shows in a while to be a true “water cooler” show, it has a 96 percent rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics and 76 percent from audiences. It’s spawned an entire cottage industry of YouTube sleuths theorizing about every clue the show’s given to the show’s mystery. It’s even crossed political boundaries, with everyone from Eileen Jones at Jacobin and Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire calling it “the best show on television”.

Dec 20, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Joseph Holmes

December 20, 2024 Two new movies weigh the consequences of buying into a national "dream." The newest Hollywood fad is trying to launch the next “Barbenheimer”—the unexpected cultural event that came about when two movies, Oppenheimer and Barbie, refused to move from releasing on the same day. This turned into a social media trend and ended up buoying both movies to box office smash success and cultural dominance. Naturally, Hollywood would like to recreate the effect.

Nov 1, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Joseph Holmes |John O. McGinnis |James Hankins |Titus Techera

The film Megalopolis is already the stuff of cinema legend. of Godfather and Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola, no studio wanted to give the movie financing. Coppola sold part of his winery to make it with his own money and had to pay Lionsgate’s marketing costs before they would distribute it in theaters. The result was both a critical and commercial flop, with many critics and fans calling it an utter disaster of a movie.

May 14, 2024 | lawliberty.org | David McGarry |Joseph Holmes |Thomas Savidge |David Schaefer

In The Anxious Generation, psychologist Jonathan Haidt has written what is, to a certain extent, a useful and important book reviewed favorably at Law & Liberty. Numerous adolescent and teen mental-health metrics in the United States have markedly deteriorated in the last 15 years or so. Haidt identifies a twofold cause, which he terms the “Great Rewiring.” In his telling, smartphone proliferation has prompted young people to substitute devices and social media for in-person socializing.