Over drinks with a friend last weekend, talk turned to movies.* We discussed what we liked, what we didn’t, what would be forgotten, and what would become future classics. As so often happens, the conversation drifted into genres. He asked me what I’d thought the most wide-ranging and versatile genre of movie was.** My answer […]

The Martian is the movie we need right now. We live in an era of astonishing selfishness and decreasing selflessness. These days, fewer people study science and engineering during their college years. In fact, business is the most popular college major. Lots of us are taught that the proper trajectory in life is to get a […]