‘The Last of Us,’ Season 2: The apocalypse and teenage melodrama

May 31, 2025

‘The Last of Us,’ Season 2: The apocalypse and teenage melodrama

Craig Mazin might be the most libertarian showrunner working in television today. Chernobyl, his breakout miniseries, was a harrowing indictment of centralized incompetence. And The Last of Us, at least in its first season, revolved around the corrupting perils of consolidated power, culminating in one man’s decision to protect a child rather than submit to the demands […]

The Trump administration has already permanently damaged Harvard

Harvard University is in crisis. The Trump administration has gone for the jugular, attempting to cut off the flow of federal funds. Perhaps most importantly, it has sought to cut this prestigious university off from its economic lifeblood: international students. But this crisis is largely one of Harvard’s own making. It could have made an […]

California Democrats wonder if they are the problem with gas prices

California Democrats in the state legislature are discovering that they may not have been running the state very well in recent years. They questioned state regulators about California’s brewing oil crisis. In the past year, Phillips 66 and Valero have both announced they will be closing a refinery in California, leading to a 21% decline […]

The WNBA is fueled by hate crime hoaxes and anti-white bigotry

The WNBA can’t seem to get out of its own way. After experiencing a dramatic increase in viewership and fandom, league players, administrators, and executives insist on genuflecting to the woke mob and continue their devotion to social justice ideology. In arguably its most eagerly anticipated season since the league debuted in 1997, the women’s […]

Ron Johnson’s demand for a return to pre-pandemic spending levels is a nonstarter

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) achieved the seemingly impossible in getting President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” across the finish line with a one-vote margin. However, Trump’s legislative legacy only passed the lower chamber with the promise to Freedom Caucus fiscal hawks that the Senate would expedite and expand Medicaid reforms and the reversal […]

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Does ‘Lilo & Stitch’ still believe in ‘ohana’?

Disney live-action reboots really can’t win. Despite being hailed by some as its best cash grab, that is, remake to date, Lilo & Stitch is caught up in controversy. Of course, it has nothing on the Snow White reboot, but a significant change to the end of the movie has infuriated fans on the Right and Left. In […]

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