Archive - Elias Isquith

“Unforgiven” is about an incompetent

“Worse than a crime — a mistake.”

Mar 23 • Elias Isquith

“Network” is a prayer, not a prophecy

Inside one of cinema’s bleakest masterpieces, there is something hidden that feels like hope.

Mar 15 • Elias Isquith

"There is so much work to be done on your heart"

Cameron Winter's "Warning" is an angry, devastating, God-haunted threat.

Mar 11 • Elias Isquith

The media is structurally pro-Trump

What a petty hit piece reveals about the media's fucked-up incentives.

Mar 10 • Elias Isquith

Trump’s war on Iran is taking place

What's it like to re-read Baudrillard as bombs fall on Tehran?

Mar 8 • Elias Isquith

February 2026

"Deadwood" and the community of spirits

On rewatching David Milch's masterpiece in the age of the oligarch.

Feb 22 • Elias Isquith

March 2025

Why MAGA acts like it’ll never lose

The logic of populism holds that anyone who is not a believer is not real.

Mar 28, 2025 • Elias Isquith

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