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Dec 27, 2019

Why Revenge of the Sith Is a Good Movie Almost Ruined by Excessive Fan Service

One of the biggest problems with the new Disney Star Wars films is the way they rely on fan service for their biggest emotional moments. Whether it’s Han Solo’s death in The Force Awakens, Luke Skywalker’s surprising character arc in The Last Jedi, or the return of Emperor Palpatine in…

Star Wars

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Why Revenge of the Sith Is a Good Movie Almost Ruined by Excessive Fan Service
Why Revenge of the Sith Is a Good Movie Almost Ruined by Excessive Fan Service
Star Wars

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Dec 26, 2019

Why Attack of the Clones is Way Better than You Remember

One of the clearest signs that George Lucas actually cared about his movies is the time he took to make them. Whereas Disney set itself a ridiculous timeline of releasing a new Star Wars movie every year since they purchased the franchise, Lucas took three years between The Phantom Menace…

Star Wars

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Why Attack of the Clones is Way Better than You Remember
Why Attack of the Clones is Way Better than You Remember
Star Wars

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Dec 24, 2019

Why The Phantom Menace is Actually an Ironic Masterpiece

I was only 10 when The Phantom Menace came out in 1999, and while I saw the movie in theaters four times, I didn’t appreciate until I was an adult how unsettled it must have made older Star Wars fans feel. It had been sixteen years since Return of the…

Star Wars

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Why The Phantom Menace is Actually an Ironic Masterpiece
Why The Phantom Menace is Actually an Ironic Masterpiece
Star Wars

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Nov 4, 2019

The 2020 Election: The New Silent Majority

Fifty years ago, on November 3, 1969, President Richard Nixon gave his famous “silent majority” speech, a televised address in which he asked Americans to support his plan to end the Vietnam War, what he would later in 1973 describe as “peace with honor.” “And so tonight,” Nixon said on…

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The 2020 Election: The New Silent Majority
The 2020 Election: The New Silent Majority
Politics

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Jun 7, 2019

The 2020 Election: On the Possibility of Political Realignment

The term “political realignment” is perhaps thrown around too liberally (no pun intended) by commentators always looking to emphasize the historic nature of whatever election just happened. Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 was considered by many to be a realigning election, as he not only put together a new coalition…

Politics

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The 2020 Election: On the Possibility of Political Realignment
The 2020 Election: On the Possibility of Political Realignment
Politics

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May 24, 2019

The 2020 Election: The Ghost of George McGovern

One of the prevailing historical narratives of the last fifty years is that our country has veered in a sharply conservative direction. It’s not just the Republican political axis of Nixon, Reagan, the two Bushes, and Trump but also the corresponding Democratic presidents of the same era: lackluster Jimmy Carter…

Politics

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The 2020 Election: The Ghost of George McGovern
The 2020 Election: The Ghost of George McGovern
Politics

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Apr 10, 2019

Why I Love and Hate Game of Thrones

The world has changed in many ways over course of the now almost twenty years of the twenty-first century, but one development that I probably wouldn’t have predicted back in the year 2000 is the worldwide popularity of Game of Thrones, an HBO television show based on an epic saga…

Game Of Thrones

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Why I Love and Hate Game of Thrones
Why I Love and Hate Game of Thrones
Game Of Thrones

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·Oct 22, 2018

American Madrassa

Fiction by Aatif Rashid — The mosque in my California suburb doesn’t really look like a mosque — no minarets and shit — and instead is just a brown stucco building in a bland business park, as unremarkable as the chiropractor with which it shares a parking lot and the police station across the street…

Short Story

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American Madrassa
American Madrassa
Short Story

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Jul 12, 2018

Thanos, Disney, and the Invisible Hand

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, the latest of the Disney/Marvel products, is interesting only in that its villain is also its protagonist. Thanos, the big purple alien with a very on-the-nose name (Thanatos is the personification of death in Greek mythology) is presented by the film as both the ultimate force of…

Movies

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Thanos, Disney, and the Invisible Hand
Thanos, Disney, and the Invisible Hand
Movies

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Jun 14, 2018

The Force Slumbers

SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY was the first Star Wars film for which the process of buying a ticket and sitting down in a dark theater didn’t bring with it the tingling anticipation I’d come to associate with each new Star Wars film, first for The Phantom Menace, which I…

Star Wars

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The Force Slumbers
The Force Slumbers
Star Wars

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Aatif Rashid

Aatif Rashid

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Debut novel PORTRAIT OF SEBASTIAN KHAN (2019, 7.13 Books). Writes about politics and literature.

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