Rob Reiner had booked a massage on the day he and his wife died but did not answer the door, prompting the couple's daughter to go into their home where she discovered that they had been knifed to death, sources have told the Daily Mail.

The couple's son, Nick, reportedly had an explosive row with his parents at Conan O'Brien's holiday party hours before, and the 32-year-old has now been arrested and booked for felony murder.

A source has told the Daily Mail that a masseuse came to Reiner's $13.5million home at 2pm Sunday to help him and his wife de-stress. She rang the bell, knocked a number of times, and left when no one answered.

This prompted the couple's daughter Romy, who lives across the road, to go over to her parents' home, where she made the horrifying discovery that they had been slain.

Reiner, Michele and Nick attended Conan O'Brien's holiday party together on Saturday night, where they got into a 'very loud argument' which other guests could hear, TMZ reports.

Reiner and Michele left the party, which was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, shortly after, sources told the outlet. It is not known if Nick left with his parents.

Then on Sunday, the couple allegedly had their throats slit after a heated argument with a relative, understood to be Nick, turned deadly at their LA mansion. Romy, Reiner's youngest child, reportedly told police that a family member 'should be a suspect' because they are 'dangerous'.

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Political violence on the rise: Left wing attacks outnumber those from the right for first time in decades​

Members of ‘far-left’ group arrested after planning to carry out series of bombings across California, FBI claims​

Federal authorities say they thwarted a credible terrorist threat led by a “far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government and anti-capitalist” group that was planning a series of bombings in California on New Year’s Eve.

Four members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, who were connected to the alleged plot, were arrested over the weekend, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X.

“The subjects self-identified as members of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), an extremist group motivated by pro-Palestinian, anti-law-enforcement, and anti-government ideology,” he wrote.

The group was allegedly planning to target five separate locations across the Los Angeles area with homemade explosive devices in what Attorney General Pam Bondi said would have been “a massive and horrific terror plot.” They were also planning to target Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles, Bondi said.

I am attending the same church I have attended for the past 28 years however things are starting to get more difficult for me.
Before, I had no problem sitting in the pews, now they have become a torture for my back.
Before, I hardly missed a word of my minister's sermon. Now, I am sometimes hard-pressed to follow what preachers say even with a microphone.
Before, I had no problem following the words of hymns on the screen. Now, my eyes start burning trying to read from that same screen.
Before, I enjoyed singing our hymns. Now, my voice breaks and my mouth goes dry and I can no longer carry a tune.

Is this the way it's going to be from now on?
Am I alone in this experience?

Bishop Brendan Cahill engaged with criticisms and says he hopes Catholics will ‘move beyond talking past one another’ on the contentious issue.

Immigration is a divisive issue, including within the Catholic Church.

Despite the U.S. bishops’ concerted opposition to elements of President Donald Trump’s immigration-enforcement campaign, especially mass deportation, the president’s approach has the support of a majority of American Catholics — including the most sacramentally active.

According to a just-released EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research poll, 54% of Catholic voters say they support “the detention and deportation of unauthorized immigrants on a broad scale.” The level of support is even higher — 58% — among Catholics who attend Mass at least weekly.

The Trump administration has deported around 605,000 people since January. The White House has said the focused campaign is a necessary response to more than 10 million undocumented immigrants entering the country during the Biden presidency, but the administration has also deported individuals who have been in the country for more than a decade.

Some bishops contend that political ideology is responsible for the disconnect they’re experiencing with some of their flock on the issue. But other Catholics say that a failure of Church leaders to openly engage the faithful on the issue is part of the problem.

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On Saturday (Dec. 13), a gunman opened fire in a classroom of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, claiming two lives. The students were gathered to review for a final exam.

Among those killed was Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore. Cook was vice president of Brown’s College Republicansand a member of Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama, near her home in Mountain Brook.

The Very Rev. R. Craig Smalley, dean and rector of Cathedral Church of the Advent, told the congregation on Sunday, “It’s a tremendous heaviness that is upon our congregation today.”

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Micah Sykes, the 31-year-old son of Grammy-nominated Christian singer Jubilant Sykes, who has been charged with his father's murder, was homeless and struggling with mental illness for years, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

In a brief court appearance last Thursday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Theresa R. McGonigle granted a request from Deputy District Attorney Cesar Rodriguez that the Christian singer’s troubled son be held without bail until his arraignment on Feb. 11, ABC 7 reported.

Rodriguez told the court that Micah Sykes was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007 and was supposed to be "medicated," but was either under-medicated or not following his doctor's recommendation at the time of his father’s murder.

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Federal authorities have arrested alleged suspects in a far-left domestic terror group that was planning to detonate a series of explosive devices on New Year’s Eve.

At a press conference Monday, authorities announced that they had arrested four members of the group Turtle Island Liberation Front last Friday, foiling a bomb plot set for Dec. 31.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation worked with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California to apprehend the individuals who were planning to target multiple companies.

Officials with the U.S. Attorney's Offices for the Western District of Louisiana and for the District of Massachusetts also helped in the investigation, as warrants were issued across the nation.

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Hey y’all, it’s been a while. I’ve come across some new answers to my predicament since I last posted. Here are things I can say with certainty:
1. I truly do desire marriage. I truly feel God put it on my heart.
2. Despite that, a lot of my depression comes from a deeper desire. I want to feel wanted.

The two don’t contradict or cancel. I want to get married AND I want to feel wanted. I always feel like the burden of whatever group of people I’m in.

The reason family love or even God’s love doesn’t feel like enough is because there’s usually expectations on those loves:
1. Families are expected to love me socially.
2. God’s love for everyone is the foundation of the faith.

But neither of those feel special. Why would I feel special with God’s love when He loves everyone equally? Why would I feel wanted in my family when they’re socially expected to love me.

That’s why I want real friends and marriage, I want to be wanted because, despite all the love from God and family, never once in my life have I felt wanted.

So… what now? What do I do to find friends. My small town hardly has meetups of interests, and I don’t have much money to travel.

Still, it’s a great first step that I nailed the source of my problem. Please help.

Also, since some people misunderstand what I'm saying:
When I say God loves us all equally, that means He loved us all enough to send Jesus to die for us, even the Pharisees. So yes, God DOES love everyone equally.

Also, I'm not saying marriage would make me complete! I'm not idolizing it, I'm just saying that marriage is a more exclusive love than God's love or family love, not that it's stronger, it's just more exclusive.

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, challenged conservative podcast host and former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan to a one-on-one interview after Ryan claimed last week that Crenshaw was threatening to sue him for defamation after raising questions about Crenshaw's net worth since becoming a member of Congress.

"They want me to remove content, issue a public apology and stop talking about him," Ryan said in a defiant video he posted on X. "I'm not going to do any of that."

Ryan claimed that Crenshaw, who is also a former Navy SEAL, sent him a private message on Instagram after Ryan appeared to raise questions about Crenshaw's alleged exorbitant spending since becoming a member of Congress in 2019.

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After a shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island over the weekend, Providence Bishop Bruce Lewandowski issued a statement asking for God’s guidance and expressing his grief in the wake of the tragedy.

On the afternoon on Saturday, Dec. 13, while approximately 60 Brown students participated in a study session for final exams in the Barus and Holley building, which houses the School of Engineering and the physics department, an unidentified shooter opened fire, leaving two dead and nine injured.

"As are many, I am deeply saddened and troubled by the senseless shooting today at Brown University in Providence,” Lewandoski wrote. “Let us unite in prayer for those who lost their lives, for the injured, for the Brown University community and all affected by this tragedy.”

As of Monday morning, Providence police continue the search for the shooter. According to Boston’s WCBV-5, a person of interest was released Sunday and the search for the killer continues.

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An appeals court panel has overruled a lower court decision stopping the Trump administration from defunding Planned Parenthood.

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a ruling last Friday in the case of Planned Parenthood Federation of America et al v. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., et al.

At issue was a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed in July, that bars certain abortion providers from obtaining Medicaid funding for one year.

Circuit Judge Gustavo A. Gelpí, a Biden appointee, authored the panel opinion, which vacated the district court ruling and sent the case back to that court for further proceedings.

Gelpí rejected the lower court argument that the measure was a punishment, noting that it “imposes no fine or other penalty for past conduct” but rather “establishes new conditions on the receipt of appropriated funds in service of a new policy goal favored by Congress.”

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When two men opened fire on crowds gathered Sunday to celebrate Hanukkah on Bondi Beach in Australia, one man stepped in to stop it. Ahmed al-Ahmed, 43, took on one of the shooters and wrestled him to the ground, preventing the death of potentially many more people.

The world watched in horror as the massacre unfolded, all caught on film. Yet along with the indiscriminate murder of Jewish men, women and children, the remarkable courage of a Muslim man to save lives has also been documented for all to see. Now the footage has been verified, and the man has been identified as a local father of two young girls who runs a fruit shop.

His parents told ABC News that their son was having coffee with a friend in Bondi when he heard gunshots, and went to intervene.

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An Evangelical theologian has questioned the theological coherence of a recent Vatican doctrinal note addressing the controversial Marian title “Co-redemptrix,” arguing that while the document slows momentum toward defining a new dogma, it simultaneously reaffirms a Roman Catholic framework that leaves the issue unresolved.

Leonardo De Chirico, an Italian Evangelical pastor and scholar, offered the assessment in a commentary published Dec. 1 on his Vatican Files website, responding to a Nov. 4 note issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith titled Mater Populis Fidelis. The note addresses long-running debates within Roman Catholicism over language describing Mary’s role in salvation, particularly whether she can be formally designated as “Co-redemptrix.”

According to De Chirico, the Vatican document signals a temporary pause rather than a definitive rejection of the title, reflecting internal tensions within Catholic Mariology and the absence of a clearly settled position.

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Genesis says the ’sons of God’ meet the ‘daughters of men,’ how do we interpret it?​

Recently, I’ve been looking at a mysterious passage in Genesis 6, at the beginning of the Flood narrative. In this passage, the “sons of God” marry “the daughters of men,” and the passage mentions a group of people known as the Nephilim.

I’ve been considering the following questions:

1) Who are the “sons of God” in this passage?

2) Who are the “daughters of men”?

3) Why does God say that man’s “days shall be 120 years”?

4) Who were the Nephilim?

5) What is the relationship linking the sons of God, the daughters of men, and the Nephilim?

6) Why does the text say the Nephilim were on the earth “in those days, and also afterward”?

7) Do these events have anything to do with the Great Flood, which this passage introduces?

In my first post, we answered Question 4 and saw that the Nephilim were a group of “giants” or unusually tall people (at least by ancient standards, when people were a lot shorter than they are today).

In a second post, we answered Questions 3, 5, and 6: it looks as though the 120 years was a grace period before God sent the Flood, the Nephilim were the children of the sons of God and the daughters of men, and they were on the earth both before and after the Flood because these groups mated twice.

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The writings of Rémi Brague, winner of the 2012 Ratzinger Prize, about Islam offer the sort of unflinching and detailed analysis often missing from papal utterances.

I.

Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will judge men on the last day” (par 16).

At first sight, that statement appears friendly and matter-of-fact; the “faith” of Muslims is evidently thought to be the same “with us”. We “agree” about a last judgment and a merciful God who is one. This mutual understanding apparently comes from Abraham. This way of putting the issue argues for a common origin of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, each of which “appeared” in history at different times—the New Testament some twelve hundred years after Abraham and Islam some seven hundred years after the time of Christ.

But when we examine what each tradition means by unity, worship, judgment, and mercy, we hesitate to affirm that they mean the same things by the same words. And the assumed agreement that God is one provides little basis for further agreement about what flows from it. Islam confronts religion and politics as we know them with questions of the true and the false, with questions of life and death. Seemingly both fascinated and paralyzed, we watch Christians and others killed or beheaded before our very eyes in the most brutal manner. The great Monastery of St. Elijah near Mosul in Iraq, dating from the 600s AD, was recently not just destroyed, but pulverized, not for any military reason but to erase any sign of historic Christian presence there. This is a foretaste of what will happen to other Christian churches and buildings if this Islamic expansion continues.

These killings and destructions are considered a judgment, so it is claimed, on a corrupt society that refuses to accept the will of Allah as the norm of how to live. We also hear of women molested even in front of European cathedrals as if such deeds are “rights”. Indeed, the women are said to be themselves the “causes” because they do not attire themselves as Muslim law requires everywhere. The victims thus cause the crimes, not the “true” believers who carry out the assaults.

We also know of blatant discrimination against non-Muslims in all Muslim lands. But again, this is said to be a “right” of every people to decide who is or is not a citizen and what its laws are. Nor are such brutal activities new or unjustified within Muslim thought. They have been present in one form or another ever since Islam began in the seventh century. There is a philosophic consistency about them. Many ways to come to terms with this abiding conduct, however, are currently proposed to render it less violent. Many, including Pope Francis (Evangelium Gaudium #253), maintain that the “true” Islam is “peaceful”; the “violence” is presented as an aberration unrelated to Islam, not the norm.

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Have you heard the news? The Trump coalition is breaking up. At least that is what the media is telling us. The New York Times, for instance, puts the breakup on podcasters fighting over the assassination of Charlie Kirk:

Kirk:

Battle lines have also been deepening over the investigation of Mr. Kirk’s murder in September, which has been the subject of conspiracy theories, including those spread by Candace Owens, another prominent right-wing podcaster, who speculated about whether the shooter acted alone.

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The Free Press, meanwhile, puts it on President Trump’s flip-flops over Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s the opener of their report on the ground in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia district:

RINGGOLD, Georgia—From behind the counter of a gas station, Lauren Epperson leaned over to tell me that she used to love President Donald Trump.
“Yep,” she said, smacking her lips. “Used to believe every word he said.”
Not anymore. The first nail in the coffin was Israel, which Epperson said she realized has been “blackmailing” the president and the entire federal government for decades. But the death knell was months of resistance by the president to releasing the federal government’s files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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“I don’t like him anymore,” said Epperson, 41 and the mother of two kids, while counting bills near the cash register. Trump is “a sellout—just like all the people I’ve loved and voted for. Oh, they got me good.”

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Guess who’s not breaking up with MAGA? Catholics! According to a recent EWTN poll, an extraordinary 67 percent of Mass-attending Catholics view President Trump “very or somewhat favorably.”

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Trump, Pope Leo, the USCCB, and Catholic loyalty

Why do Catholics remain Trump’s most loyal constituency while other parts of the MAGA coalition seem to be weakening?

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Greetings my brothers and sisters in the faith, I hope all is well. I have become affiliated with this forum as of this day and wish to make some friends who are fellow believers. I hope we become well acquainted and form lasting bonds between us believers. I greet all the brethren, this letter was typed by own hand. Grace be with thee. Amen.

A new poll reveals what mass attendance actually predicts about virtue and deportation policy.

America’s Catholic bishops may incessantly complain about President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, but American Catholics actually support such measures as mass deportations. EWTN News and RealClear Opinion Research published a poll late last week which found that a majority (54 percent) of American Catholics favor mass deportations, including 27.5 percent (the largest share recorded in the poll) who “strongly favor” the policy, while only 30 percent oppose it and less than 17 percent expressed indifference. Support for the “detention and deportation of unauthorized immigrants on a broad scale” increased to 60 percent among white Catholics and opposition fell to 26 percent.

It just happens that over 300,000 children ended up in a living hell.

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In fact, mass deportations were more popular among American Catholics than Trump himself was. While 54 percent of Catholics endorsed mass deportations, Trump’s support among Catholics only stood at 52 percent, while 37 percent held an unfavorable view of the president — up almost 10 points compared to opposition to mass deportations.

White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers responded to the survey results noting that the president “won in a landslide victory with historic support from patriotic Catholics across the country because he promised to fight for people of faith, and he has delivered in record time.”

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PSALMS 112​

The Traits of the Righteous
1Hallelujah!
Happy is the person who fears the Lord,
taking great delight in his commands.
2His descendants will be powerful in the land;
the generation of the upright will be blessed.
3Wealth and riches are in his house,
and his righteousness endures forever.
4Light shines in the darkness for the upright.
He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
5Good will come to the one who lends generously
and conducts his business fairly.
6He will never be shaken.
The righteous one will be remembered forever.
7He will not fear bad news;
his heart is confident, trusting in the Lord.
8His heart is assured; he will not fear.
In the end he will look in triumph on his foes.
9He distributes freely to the poor;
his righteousness endures forever.
His horn will be exalted in honor.

10The wicked one will see it and be angry;
he will gnash his teeth in despair.
The desire of the wicked leads to ruin.

When I was doing an internship at the World Zionist Organization in Jerusalem I was told that there was a specific denomination which donated millions to our projects. I even asked why they would do such a thing but they basically told me: "don't ask, we need the funding".

Now as a Christian my question is a little different:
why do some Christians feel a strong connection with the secular state of Israel? If it is only related to biblical places then one can also include support for Egypt.
Moreover, is there a specific group that is more into funding Israeli projects and why?

One a side note;
The modern term "Jew/s" did not exist in biblical times. Neither was there the concept of "Judaism" as we know it today.
The reason to support the secular state of Israel because of "Jews" as the chosen people is rather strange in my opinion.

This is truly a Christmas special and it would do our souls good to think of our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world at this time and remember that God works across the world in different cultures and contexts.

13-year-old Alaia and nine-year-old Manuela have fond memories of Christmas in Nicaragua, but this wasn't to last. As well as the usual festivities, her parents would share the Gospel with others.

One day Alaia and Manuela’s father received a phone call and the father said to the man on the phone he'd be there in a few minutes. The end of the day arrived and the girls and their mum heard nothing. Their mum said “Remember when I told you that something could happen to your dad or me because of preaching about Jesus?” “That day has come. Your dad has been arrested.”

The family didn't hear from the dad- days became months and they did not even know if he was dead or alive. Then he called them- he told them to flee the country.

Alaia, Manuela and their mum fled- miraculously they fled the border with zero papers and soon the father, by God's grace, joined them.

The family are now in a new Country- what a blessing they must be to their church family, they do however miss Nicaragua at Christmas.

I will finish with this quote BY A 13 YEAR OLD Alaia- unbelievably wise beyond her years by God's grace. “I learned that persecution teaches you not to cling to earthly things, one day we’ll die and won’t take anything with us. So, the best thing we can do is live – and even die – for Christ.”

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Open Doors Prayer Diary Nov/Dec 2025

The Church of England made history on October 3 by naming Sarah Mullally, 63, as the first woman to hold the post of Archbishop of Canterbury, a landmark decision in the Church’s 1,400-year history. A former Bishop of London and nurse by profession, Archbishop-designate Mullally’s elevation to the highest seat in the Anglican Communion has sparked both celebration and reflection, not least among scholars of media and politics.

The announcement has not only marked a historic moment for the Anglican Church but also revealed how different media institutions frame the intersection of faith, gender, and modernity. The varying portrayals of Mullally’s appointment across global outlets, from The Guardian and BBC to CNN, Associated Press, and Deutsche Welle (DW) demonstrate how the same event can be interpreted through distinct ideological and cultural lenses.

Breaking the “Stained-Glass Ceiling”

The Associated Press (AP) chose to frame Mullally’s appointment as a moment of rupture with ecclesiastical tradition, describing it as “shattering a stained-glass ceiling.” Quoting George Gross, an expert on monarchy and religion at King’s College London, AP noted, “If you can have a female prime minister and a female monarch, why can’t you have a female archbishop?” Yet this framing, while rhetorically effective, reveals an implicit conflation between the secular and the sacred spheres, a logical fallacy from the perspective of political theology, which upholds the distinction between church and state.

The AP’s additional portrayal of Mullally as “first among equals” subtly reinforces the notion of measured progress within a hierarchical institution, acknowledging both the historic nature of the decision and the ongoing resistance within traditionalist circles.

“Renewal and Hope” or “Bitterly Contested Equality”?

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The last quarter century in Western cultural life has been wasted. Everything is a little bit mid, as the kids say. There have been impressive individual works of art and entertainment. But taken as a whole, the picture is bleak: our artistic output is derivative and cheaply didactic, either moralizing or starved for moral judgment and ideas. Now, as cultural criticism confronts this epochal failure, it’s easy to cast partisan blame, with a still-dominant Left critical establishment training its sights on the Right.
Easy — but inaccurate.

Cultural life in the 21st century doesn’t feel tortured or ecstatic so much as muted. We aren’t truly bored anymore; boredom has been technologically abolished. Every stray second can be plastered over with a feed, a notification, a video “For You,” an algorithmic recommendation tuned precisely to prevent mental calm. But neither are we animated. There are widespread predictions of a coming civil war and calls for a political uprising, yet neither is remotely on the horizon — because we aren’t passionate enough. Instead, we drift in a gray zone between stimulation and stupor, provoked but under-engaged, surrounded by infinite novelty that no longer feels all that novel.

Our clothes arrive in two days and fall apart in three. Travel is cheaper, but cities blur into one another, interchangeable landscapes of chain restaurants, and “authentically curated” coffee shops identical from Denver to Dublin. The internet, once a wild frontier, now feels like a series of endlessly recycled aesthetics: girl dinner, cottagecore, blokecore, everything a core, everything a remix.

It’s precisely this sense of living in a stagnant wasteland that Blank Space, W. David Marx’s wide-ranging survey of 21st century-culture, tries to map. In his previous polemic, 2022’s Status and Culture, the Tokyo-based culture-vulture took a sanguine approach to contemporary life, arguing that the omnivorous approach to cultural consumption in the West — where there is no more snobbery, and where elites enjoy “not just high culture, but pop and indie, niche and mass, new and old, domestic and foreign, primitive and sophisticated” — is by and large a good thing for the sake of flattening the class distinctions of old. We were slouching toward equality.

Now, Marx worries that the lack of pretense in contemporary culture is no utopia, that it might mean we’re all eating from the same trough of slop. Across nearly 400 increasingly exasperated pages, Marx convincingly argues that art, entertainment, and fashion since the year 2000 have been some combination of uninspired, recycled, soulless, corporatized, or plainly dumb — so much so that there is a blank space where a distinct cultural imprint should be.

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