America was not discovered by a Genoese adventurer in 1492. Even the most unenlightened American would struggle to make that mistake now that the very word “Columbus” has transitioned into a verb — meaning to claim something that existed way …
The absurd optimism of Megalopolis
I attended a very special, and very strange, preview screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis a few days ahead of its official release. Before the film ran, the screening audience was treated to what was surely meant to be a …
