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The Daily Wire’s Pendragon Series Suffers From Bad Pacing
Stephen R. Lawhead’s retelling of the classic King Arthur story isn’t afraid to present the rise of Christianity in Britain, and the first two episodes of The Daily Wire’s new series, “Pendragon: Rise of the Merlin,” brings…
How the FCC became the speech police
In 1964, journalist Fred J. Cook published Barry Goldwater: Extremist of the Right, a 186-page attack on the Republican candidate in that year's presidential election. As economist Thomas W. Hazlett notes in his history …
‘Death by Lightning’ dramatizes James Garfield’s forgettable assassination
Mike Makowsky opens Death by Lightning, a four-part miniseries he wrote and produced, with a chilling line: "This is a true story about two men the world forgot. One was the 20th president of the United States. The other…
How ‘Stranger Things’ Self-Sabotaged in Its Final Hour
“Stranger Things” is over, and, after ten years of investment, many fans have walked away asking the same question: What on earth was that? After a decade of supernatural terror, emotional stakes, and…
Would Star Trek’s transporter destroy cities or save them?
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. Given the holiday slowdown in the news and general merriment that comes with the Christmas season, I'm hoping readers might indulge me in writing this…
‘Andor’ creator Tony Gilroy on bureaucracy and the surveillance state
This week, guest host Eric Boehm is joined by Tony Gilroy, the creator, writer, and director of Andor, the critically acclaimed Star Wars series that reimagines the origins of the Rebel Alliance. While Andor is set in a…
The haters are wrong. Netflix’s glut of Christmas movies is good, actually.
I'm not afraid to admit it: I love Christmas movies. The cheesy ones, the sentimental ones, the ones where the girl from the big city goes home for the holidays, rediscovers the true meaning of something vaguely defined,…
Homosexual TV show trailer played at Montreal Canadiens’ hockey games
Tue Dec 16, 2025 - 4:31 pm ESTWed Dec 17, 2025 - 6:31 am EST (LifeSiteNews) — On December 10, the stadium audience at Bell Centre for the “Pride Night” game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Tampa Bay Lightning got an…
Review: Wayward Spotlights the Dark Secrets of Troubled-Teen Programs
Netflix's Wayward follows Abbie and Leila, two best friends trying to escape Tall Pines Academy—a disciplinary boarding school in a small town—as well as Alex, a police officer who just moved to town with his wife. Abbie…
Ayn Rand denounced FCC censorship 60 years ago
After Jimmy Kimmel delivered a misinformed monologue about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr pressured broadcast channels to take the comedian off the air. Carr…
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