The Bat in Daylight: Matt Fraction, Batman, and a New Day in Gotham City
You don’t wait for institutions to become trustworthy, or people to become good, or the city to become clean before deciding whether it’s worth fighting for.
Dancing in the Dark: Finding Flickers of Meaning in Pop Music Nihilism
How is it that a catchy melody, solid groove, or infectious hook can make you want to dance to even the darkest and most nihilistic of thoughts?
Dark and Longing for the End of the World
The characters of Dark are stuck in a world that has no end: what they want is an eschaton, where death is undone, and the world can be made new.
The Good Place Recap: Jeremy Bearimy (Season 3, Episode 5)
D. L. Mayfield recaps and muses on the lastest episode of The Good Place, “Jeremy Bearimy.”
Fate/Zero and the (Un)holy Grail
Fate/Zero provides us a tragic story of idolatry straight from the playbook of scripture.
LOL Interwebz: Only ’90s Kids Will Understand the Crippling Emptiness of Human Existence
If we’re demanding that our childhood be recycled over and over, perhaps it’s because adulthood as currently conceived of has very little to offer us.
“Something Good, Something Bad, a Bit of Both”: Natural Law, Nihilism, and Guardians of the Galaxy
It is precisely the contrast between the damaged yet ultimately sympathetic heroes and their maniacal foes that make Guardians of the Galaxy tick.
