In the earliest days of MTV, few songs were more inescapable than Devo’s fractured New Wave classic “Whip It.” With hardly any bands making music videos when MTV launched in 1981, the ...
A still more crucial ’70s reference point is Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, the source for both the Martha’s Vineyard setting and the theme of a whistleblower whose warnings are ignored.
The coming year, 2025, is really like any other, only more so: It deserves to be greeted with what one of my former editors calls “paranoid optimism.” Optimism is in order because the world ...