Time travel allows us to make time, that which is finite, infinite. With time travel we never have to leave the ones we love and we never have to say goodbye. We find a modicum of immortality in our defiance of nature. But we also take fate–a concept rooted not in reality but in faith–and [...]

Now as I understand it I’m supposed to hate Aaron Sorkin right now. He wrote a self-indulgent tv show once and he just won an Oscar and Social Network didn’t have as many women in it as some people felt it should. So I’m supposed to hate Sorkin. Only I can’t. I guess I could [...]