* Old normal: Paramount Pictures’ “Quiet Place Part II” had a highly successful (estimated North American gross of $58.5 million) opening–in actual theaters--over the holiday weekend.
*“One key change to mainstream journalism in the Trump era was the impulse to tell the reader exactly what to think, lest by leaving anything ambiguous you gave an inch to right-wing demagogy.”–Ross Douthat, New York Times.