The pull toward forecasts is not about prediction, but about the unresolved effort to orient a self through time.
Macaulay Culkin weighed in on the annual Die Hard debate, dismissing it as a Christmas movie and jokingly naming himself the “godfather of Christmas” based on his role in Home Alone. It was a funny moment—but it also revealed something more interesting about how nostalgia, ego, and past roles quietly get mistaken for authority. This isn’t really about Die Hard. It’s about who we think gets to...