Glen Bradley

Are movie theaters dead, or is the big screen irreplaceable?

I proposed to my wife in the parking lot of the theater where we had our first date. We had seen maybe forty movies there over six years: bad horror, great dramas, the midnight showing where the power went out and everyone stayed anyway. The building holds our twenties the way a song holds a summer. Streaming gives you content. Theaters give you a place where your life happens to occur while art is playing. Every couple has a restaurant like that, a park like that. Ours was a cinema with sticky floors and a broken seat in row G. Tell me that's replaceable and I will tell you that you have never loved a place.

Should the federal government break up Big Tech companies?

As a software engineer, I can tell you the integration people love is exactly what breakup proposals would destroy. Google Maps works inside search, Gmail, and Calendar because one company builds all of them. The Justice Department wants to force Google to sell Chrome, but Chrome's [open-source foundation](https://www.chromium.org/) underpins most rival browsers too, including Edge and Brave. Break that apart and you do not get five healthy competitors. You get licensing fights, broken features, and a worse product for the two billion people who use it. The [2020 House report](https://judiciary.house.gov) documented real harms, but structural breakup is the bluntest possible tool. Targeted rules on self-preferencing would fix the abuse without dynamiting products that work.

Cuts are a choice, not a law of physics. Schools choose to pay coordinators seven figures and build waterfalls in the locker room. If payroll is tight, start there before touching the swim team.

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That assumes static institutions. The IAEA started weak too and gained authority as norms solidified. Starting imperfect does not mean staying toothless forever.

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