This article appears in the October 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right) By David J. Lynch PublicAffairs For a time, globalization was synonymous with utopia: the untrammeled flow of capital across borders, new markets waiting to be opened, the growth of developing […]
Siddhartha Mahanta
Siddhartha Mahanta is a New York City–based editor and writer. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere.
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Requiem for a Comedy Dream
Jason Reitman’s new film about the origins of ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces a consideration of how the show turned into comfort food for its scared, self-satisfied liberal audiences.