Jay Smooth notes, in the context of the NBA Finals, that the masses pay well for their opiates and LeBron James broke a cardinal rule of sports by reminding people that they don’t really matter: I’m not ready to say “sports don’t matter” in a world where terrorists are willing to murder and mutilate World […]
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What’s Wrong with This Picture?
A dissenting opinion on American Beauty.
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If Wishing Only Made it So
Two recent movies, Patch Adams and Life Is Beautiful, each claim to reveal the relation between fantasy and politics. One succeeds magnificently; the other is a fraud.
