Author: Michael Siegel

Chernobyl

Tenshot: Chernobyl

As a scientist, I have always been intensely curious about what caused the Chernobyl explosion. The HBO series does an outstanding job of explaining.

I, Claudius

Tenshot: I, Claudius

I, Claudius has everything Game of Thrones had. Granted, there’s a few more British actors and not quite as many dragons. But it all happened in real life.

Tenshot: Into the Spiderverse

For me, the sign of a great movie is when I’m both enjoying the current scene and giddy with anticipation for the scene to come.

Johnson's Dictionary

Save Our English

The beautiful thing about English is that you don’t have to use such an awkward phrasing as “accused of having sex with an incapacitated woman against her will”. You can use only three words: “accused of rape.”

The Florida Story Teetering on the Edge

The Florida raids are becoming a textbook cases for how police and prosecutors overstate the problem of sex trafficking in this country. But even if further investigation does show that some of these women were being coerced, that only makes the case for decriminalization even stronger.