America’s beleaguered poor and working class have a host of problems, but the culture of irresponsibility that J.D. Vance says they’re prey to isn’t one of them.
Movies
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Why So Many Black Horror Films Are Horrors Themselves
While there are some notable exceptions, most of the film and TV entries in the current Black horror genre fail to dramatize the real horrors inflicted on Blacks.
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Retrying the Chicago Seven
Sorkin’s film plays fast and loose with characters and facts, but he got one thing right.
Posted inPolitics
The Socialist Moment, and How to Extend It
A new book and a new film speak to different audiences about the movement’s revival and prospects.
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‘We’re Outsourcing Our Decision-Making to Machines’
In her new film ‘Coded Bias,’ filmmaker Shalini Kantayya explores how algorithms deployed in our most essential institutions are rife with human biases.
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‘Impunity Is the Story of Our Times’
An interview with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer
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Gone With ‘Gone With the Wind’
Hollywood not only got the Civil War and Reconstruction wrong. It also screwed up the Western.
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‘We Don’t Just Interview People Once’
A discussion with documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert, whose work chronicles labor, women, and the American left, and who won an Oscar this year for ‘American Factory’
Posted inCoronavirus
Premonitions of Disaster
How science fiction writers and movies of the late 20th century anticipated Trump, the coronavirus, and American dystopia
