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Recent Examples of madmenBut there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025 Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan were madmen marching the United States toward nuclear war.—Isaac Schorr, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
And then there are the infernal workers who make sure that Lucifer’s realm runs smoothly, among them farting devils, giants in chains, and a flying monster with the body of a serpent and the face of an honest man.
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Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
In odd years, the company produces the story of a group of pastores making a perilous trek to Bethlehem to pay their respects to the Holy Manger while fighting devils and their powerful leader Luzbel.
Young chimpanzee daredevils Our study group consisted of over 100 wild chimpanzees ranging from 2 to 65 years old from Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda.
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Lauren Sarringhaus,
The Conversation,
7 Jan. 2026
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