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Can Reality TV Redeem Jake and Logan Paul?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the first episode of “Paul American,” a new reality-TV show currently streaming on Max, the YouTuber, influencer, and wrestler Logan Paul mounts a PowerPoint pitch for his fiancée, the Danish…

Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Before becoming a writer, I went to college to study international marketing. I had succumbed, like many immigrant children, to the guilt-ridden obligation to “make a living” before pursuing my own…

TikTok and the Retreat from Technological Globalization

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On January 18th, at around 10:30 P.M, the social platform TikTok went dark in the United States. It remained unavailable to American users for a grand total of about fourteen hours.…

The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. In the nineteen-seventies, U.C.L.A.’s Ethno-Communications program,…

“A Minecraft Movie” Is a Tale of Two Cinematic Universes

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly Mormon cinematic universe of Jared Hess, the director of “A Minecraft…

What Pauline Kael Failed to See About Young Film Lovers

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Pauline Kael’s most famous work for The New Yorker, her celebrated review of “Bonnie and Clyde,” from October, 1967, was the second piece she ever wrote for the magazine. The first,…

Will A.I. Save the News?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I am a forty-five-year-old journalist who, for many years, didn’t read the news. In high school, I knew about events like the O. J. Simpson trial and the Oklahoma City bombing, but…