Dispatches From the Culture Wars — August 11, 2026
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‘A Towering Piece of Monoculture’: How the Odyssey Discourse Has Dominated This Summer
The Guardian
Christopher Nolan’s smash hit epic has continued to excite and enrage everyone from rightwingers to academics, an old-fashioned throwback to a uniting big-screen event
Friday Nite Videos | July 17, 2026
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John Leguizamo on SCOTUS's Birthright Ruling. Epstein Survivor Dani Bensky on Todd Blanche. The Odyssey | Movie. Get Up Stand Up | Playing for Change. The Science Behind the Odyssey's Greatest Challenge.
The Odyssey | Movie
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is a mythic action epic, bringing Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX for the first time. Opens July 17, 2026.
The Science Behind the Odyssey's Greatest Challenge
The Strait of Messina is thought to be the place where Odysseus faced Scylla and Charybdis. Science can explain this treacherous strait, high tide on one side and low tide on the other.
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