Matt Feeney

1 week ago | unherd.com | Matt Feeney

action filmCinemaCultureFilmHollywoodtom cruiseaction filmUS Bruce Willis and Nicolas Cage are strangely important to the story of the Mission: Impossible franchise, as I understand that story. The first Mission: Impossible arrived in 1996, amid a long decade of big-budget, big box-office, shamelessly over-the-top action movies starring those two actors, such as the Die Hard movies and Armageddon (Willis), and The Rock and Con Air (Cage).

2 months ago | unherd.com | Matt Feeney

CultureFathersMike WhiteOedipusSigmund FreudThe White LotusUS A fun thing about making Freudian moves in your criticism is that it lets you look sort of sophisticated and literary when you’re being reductive and, arguably, unfair.

2 months ago | unherd.com | Matt Feeney

aidogeElon MuskPoliticsTechnologyUS Elon Musk’s DOGE has introduced some novel mental states into various parts of the American polity. Among its supporters, one finds both triumphalism and confusion. Among its opponents, one finds outrage, or sadness, or alarm, or all of these things combined, and confusion.

2 months ago | deseret.com | Matt Feeney

In 2013, the admissions department of New York University offered acceptance to 35 percent of its applicants. Eleven years later, the school's acceptance rate had dropped to 8 percent. Yale's acceptance rate has hovered on both sides of 4 percent in recent years. Stanford's acceptance rate has dipped below 4 percent. Harvard's is right at about 3 percent. Other elite schools boast acceptance rates far down in the single digits.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Matt Feeney

In 2013, the admissions department of New York University offered acceptance to 35 percent of its applicants. Eleven years later, the school’s acceptance rate had dropped to 8 percent. Yale’s acceptance rate has hovered on both sides of 4 percent in recent years. Stanford’s acceptance rate has dipped below 4 percent. Harvard’s is right at about 3 percent. Other elite schools boast acceptance rates far down in the single digits.