In this fascinating book, Ryan Holiday reveals a meticulously plotted conspiracy against Gawker that would end with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy, and with Nick Denton, Gawker’s CEO and founder, out of a job. For years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he’d come […]
In The Invisible Hand and Popular Culture, Paul Cantor explores the ways in which television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, South Park, and Deadwood and films such as The Aviator and Mars Attacks! have portrayed both top-down and bottom-up models of order. Drawing on the works of […]
Tragedy struck the set of “The Twilight Zone” when three actors were killed on the set due to an accident involving a helicopter while filming. The title Special Effects by Ron Labrecque covers the disaster of such a tragedy as well as the trial. The incident was captured on film […]
Can a presidential candidate sue a newspaper for calling him a drunk? No, this isn't about a current case in our hyper-partisan environment in which the media takes sides. Nor is it about Donald Trump calling his political opponents crooked, liar, or loser. It's about Theodore Roosevelt bringing a libel […]
