Daily Archives: June 27, 2026

The Man Who Finishes What He Starts: The Accountant, the Weaponized Mind, and the Modern Imagination of Intelligence, Isolation, and Violence

Posted on June 27, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant (2016), written by Bill Dubuque, asks an audience to admire a figure who, on the surface, should be alarming: a forensic accountant on the autism spectrum who launders money for cartels and arms dealers, kills … Continue reading →

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“I’m Your Huckleberry”: Doc Holliday, the Fragile Gunman, and What America Asks of Its Violence

Posted on June 27, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract In George P. Cosmatos’s Tombstone (1993), the nominal hero is Wyatt Earp, the lawman who restores order to a lawless silver town. Yet the character who has lodged most durably in the American imagination is not the lawman but … Continue reading →

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