The 2006 film Children of Men is set in 2027 where a global fertility crisis has plunged the world into an orgy of sectarian violence, ecological disaster, and a global refugee crisis. Democracy has ...
All those episodes of “Masterpiece Theater” have left an indelible image of the Victorian era as a time of civility and restraint. People of that time may have been hypocrites, but at least they were ...
Sometimes a great work comes along to confirm total hatred of the human race, purest misanthropy, a vision that realizes the finest thing at last is to toss aside the humans and go to the forest, hug ...
Once an acerbic comic talent, his latest dachshund dramedy sees the director go to new depressing lows The funniest shot in Todd Solondz’s bleak comedy Wiener-Dog comes early on: a lovingly confected ...
Howard Jacobson ponders why misanthropy is out of fashion. 'Where have they gone?' he asks, 'such great haters of mankind as Juvenal, Swift, Flaubert'. Show more Howard Jacobson ponders why ...
Smart investing is misanthropy in that you do make money going by the wisdom of crowds, but you make much more if you know when to bet against the herd. In Curb Your ...