Christopher Nolan’s new film, the Odyssey, has launched a thousand think pieces. Below, I have included the headlines from some of the more provocative pieces about the work.

Given the extent of globalization, I’m often surprised when a solution which is obviously better is applied in one place and not another. The case I want to talk about here is the solution to the problem of seating a lot of people in your house. In the U.S., if you want to have any sort of …

In the glory days of anthropology, Western researchers would travel all over the world compiling ethnographies of the peoples and cultures they encountered. The goal was impartial and exhaustive recording of what those peoples and societies were like; they were there as dispassionate observers. An …