In his latest book, The Uses of Delusion, Vyse (2022) asks if some false ideas persist because they deliver surplus value that compensates for their falseness. After carefully considering the ...

Journalist with 30 years in news writing for CNN, KLAS-TV, WCMH-TV, Newsweek, Mediaite, and RawStory. Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast ...

Grayson Perry's new exhibition at The Wallace Collection is a characteristically "playful" and unconventional affair, said Nancy Durrant in The Times. When the Turner Prize-winning artist was ...

With the stock market plunging and the threat of hyper-inflation bearing down, the propagandists at Fox News are in quite a pickle. Their job is to paint every dumb decision made by Donald Trump ...

The art of trade war. An AI-generated video mocking the prospect of Americans working factory jobs has been viewed over 6 million times in the wake of President Trump’s tariff agenda. The video ...

all too many of whom succumbed to the Trumpian delusion of making America great once again through antediluvian measures. The idea that a president in thrall to dysfunctional billionaires would ...

It is dark; causes pause for thought. Her delusions of grandeur are fully manifested and it is here in the pit of her mind where she finds light. Perry describes her as obsessed by her family tree.

Toussaint Egan (he/him) is a curation editor, out to highlight the best movies, TV, anime, comics, and games. He has been writing professionally for over a decade. While art books are a modern ...

After eight episodes of slowly building tension, The White Lotus finale aired Sunday night, revealing at last the victims of the explosive gunfire that ripped through the ritzy Thailand wellness ...

Delusions — fixed, false beliefs that cannot be changed by evidence — are a key symptom of many psychotic disorders. Diagnostic manuals like the DSM-5 group them into broad categories, with recurring ...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have won four straight division titles, and their five consecutive playoff appearances is the longest active streak in the NFC. The team finished 10-7 in 2024, the first ...