The strike of SAG-AFTRA highlights a summer of workers’ pushback against a finance-driven economy.
Books, Culture & the Arts
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The Man Question
How should men think about masculinity in the 21st century? Phil Christman ponders.
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What’s Turned Hollywood Stars Into Labor Militants
Today on TAP: Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, and 1,000 other disgruntled actors tell their union not to meet the studios halfway.
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Drowned in the Stream
Hard-hitting filmmaker Amy Ziering on why journalistic documentaries are facing extinction
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The Dire State of Video Game Journalism
Criticism is important for any art form, but doing it for games is a tough business.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ticketmaster Offers to Exploit Concertgoers More Transparently
The ticket broker’s new ‘all-in’ pricing pledge is an effort to stave off antitrust enforcement.
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Is Capitalism Really Cracking Up Nation-States?
Quinn Slobodian’s new book shimmers with libertarian dreams but fails to demonstrate that zones are splintering national governments.
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Casablanca for Real
The Netflix series ‘Transatlantic,’ on the 1940-1941 rescue of refugees from Marseille, is well worth watching, and contrasting with the shameful neglect of refugees in 2023.
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Days of Plunder
Two new books call ‘private equity’ what it actually is, but neither offers much hope for emancipation from our eternal hostile takeover.
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Why Gun Jokes No Longer Work
Tragedy + Tragedy + Tragedy + Tragedy …
