WandaVision is an ambitious offering from the Marvel Industrial Complex, but it falls short of its potential. I reviewed the show for Mere Orthodoxy (in a way I hope was comprehensible even to non-watchers!). The show is ultimately about the consequences of the stories we tell about our lives. The show uses the heightened style… Read More
Month: March 2021
Game Design with Questing Beast
My husband Alexi and I were guests on Questing Beast for a discussion of game design and storytelling. I really enjoyed the conversation, particularly when we talked about how social conflict in incorporated into a game's mechanics. A more freeform game can turn on the player's quick-thinking, rather than the character's. We talked a bit… Read More
How The Government Wasted Our Pandemic Sacrifices
In my first piece for The Week, I'm discussing why the lack of high-quality masks is our pandemic failures in miniature. Throughout the pandemic, Americans have made extraordinary sacrifices to slow the spread of the virus. We haven't been unequal to the disaster, but our leaders' lapses have left people filling in the gaps of… Read More