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Crashing the Mayans’ Big Date

By Garrett Baer | December 8, 2009

Most of us know, one should hope, that the media’s portrayal of 2012 is essentially baseless. What is more interesting, though, is the way that the Mayan date of 2012…

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Why Is the End of the World Such a Big Deal?

By Nathan Schneider | November 30, 2009

I’ve got a new essay today in Obit that takes the new 2012 movie as an occasion for a reflection on why folks are always so eager to proclaim the…

A 2012 promotional wallpaper from Sony Pictures.

Long Count

By Alexander Zaitchik | November 23, 2009

Suffering through 2012, Roland Emmerich’s take on a Mayan prophecy.

J. Allan Danelek

2012 or Bust!

By Jessica Weisberg | November 19, 2009

Talking down to prophecy nuts is a delicate art.

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Times Reports: Crazy People Believe in 2012

By Jessica Weisberg | November 19, 2009

In the Times yesterday, Dennis Overbye had an essay telling the paper’s more apocalyptically-inclined readers to continue paying their mortgages.  We have nothing to fear, Overbye insists; 2012 will only…

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Oh Mayan!

By KtBniks | November 19, 2009

We just heard from Corey Pein out in Santa Fe, who tells us about his excellent new Buddha-killing article in the Santa Fe Reporter about some of the key 2012ologists,…

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Why 2012?

By Nathan Schneider | November 16, 2009

With the subject line “2012,” Wendy Bradley wrote, regarding our present series on the subject: What a waste of time, attention, and resources. How come? XOW I suppose she’s got…

2012plate

The 2012ologists

By Andrew Marantz | November 13, 2009

Hollywood flies to Jackson Hole to hash out the apocalypse.

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In Honor of 2012

By KtBniks | November 13, 2009

Whoever rules the apocalypse rules the world. That’s why, in celebration of the release of the disaster flick 2012 today, Friday the 13th, we’ll be publishing a series of articles…