It’s Not Love, Actually: Watch me do an about-face on the world’s worst Christmas movie.
A dozen years ago, I passionately defended this film. In 2025, I'm ashamed of myself.
Sean Munger
Expulsion from paradise: The civilian evacuees from Hawaii after Pearl Harbor.
Thirty thousand people fled Hawaii in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Many never returned.
Interiors: The “Commodore Club” aboard the ocean liner Queen Mary 2.
What does an Art Deco bar aboard a modern ocean liner have to do with Star Trek? Possibly a lot.
A thousand points of denial: The global warming legacy of George H.W. Bush.
Despite his successes, Bush's most important and enduring legacy is one of failure: the failure to lead on the issue of climate change.
Thanksgiving 2025: Best wishes to all of you.
Enjoy the holiday, turkey, family and friends today. Best wishes for the season.
Willkommen, again: “Cabaret” and its renewed relevance.
This film, made in the 1970s about the 1930s, is arguably more relevant to conditions in 2025 than it ever was.
Historic Painting: “Napoleon and his General Staff” by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1867.
This view of a scene during Napoleon's Nile campaign of 1798 is classic Gérôme on every level.