WARNING: This review contains major content spoilers. After watching Promising Young Woman once, I felt like I had seen it twice — each time with different eyes. The film buff in me loved it. I … [Read More...] about Promising Young Woman : Will We Ever Triumph Over Trauma?
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January in Music : Bops and Flops
Welcome back to the eleventh (wow!) installment of Spire’s Bops and Flops, the series where yours truly reviews the best and worst music of the month. If one thing can be said about this month’s … [Read More...] about January in Music : Bops and Flops
Politics
Facebook Pledged to Take Down Thousands of Pro-QAnon Accounts (Again), But Users Are Adapting
QAnon entered my life uneventfully as if it were there already. Like many during this pandemic, my days are spent mindlessly scrolling on social media in between completing tasks for work or … [Read More...] about Facebook Pledged to Take Down Thousands of Pro-QAnon Accounts (Again), But Users Are Adapting
Florida Students Create Change With the Team Enough Lobbying Collective
When many Americans hear the word “lobbying,” they imagine people advocating for legislation benefiting big corporations and billionaires. However, lobbyists can also promote legislation which … [Read More...] about Florida Students Create Change With the Team Enough Lobbying Collective
Economics
Words You Don’t Know: Dambargo
The new American nation was, at its birth, an experiment surrounded by experiments. Across the Atlantic, Napoleon led Revolutionary France on a spree that destroyed much of the old world order. Across … [Read More...] about Words You Don’t Know: Dambargo
From Florida State to Kuwait: International Finance With Gilman C. Gunn III
Gilman C. Gunn III is a veritable jack of all trades in terms of economics. He's worked in real-estate, investment, bonds, and gone as far from the USA as Kuwait. He's also a graduate from Florida … [Read More...] about From Florida State to Kuwait: International Finance With Gilman C. Gunn III
International
My Life Is Not Your Porn: The Korean Social Movement You Haven’t Heard Of
South Korean women gather in Seoul to protest the prevalence of hidden spy cameras in public places such as restrooms that film secret footage for the purpose of pornography. Photo Source. If … [Read More...] about My Life Is Not Your Porn: The Korean Social Movement You Haven’t Heard Of
Fire and Fury: The End of a Nuclear Forces Treaty
J. Robert Oppenheimer, reflecting on the power of the nuclear weapons he helped to develop, quoted this line from the the Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. He knew the terrifying reality that would come … [Read More...] about Fire and Fury: The End of a Nuclear Forces Treaty