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June 28, 2023
Magazine
Claire Potter
The Right’s Campus Culture War Machine
How conservatives built a formidable network for ginning up scandal in higher education
June 26, 2023
Magazine
Scott W. Stern
Where Does the South Begin?
A new history cuts against stereotypes, to show a region constantly changing—and whose future is up for grabs.
June 24, 2023
Alex Shephard
He Made a Mess of CNN. Now He’s Ruining Turner Classic Movies Too.
David Zaslav, whose Chris Licht hire butchered CNN, is vandalizing TCM, a beloved cultural institution.
June 22, 2023
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Readers’ Poll: What Are the Most Significant Political Films of All Ti
The critics have weighed in. Now it’s your turn.
June 22, 2023
Magazine
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The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time
Not “best.” Not “favorite.” Not “most likable.” Most significant. Some are obvious. Some obscure. A few will be controversial. Let the debate begin.
June 22, 2023
Magazine
J. Hoberman
What Is a “Political Film,” Anyway?
It’s about revolution. Or elections. It can be a thriller. Or a comedy. It’s a movie whose politics we love. It’s a movie whose politics we detest. It’s even, sometimes, a zombie movie.
June 22, 2023
Magazine
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TNR Staffers on 15 Great Political Films Missing From the Critics’ List
Our—incomplete—guide to the list’s oversights, travesties, and glaring omissions
June 21, 2023
Magazine
Rumaan Alam
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Reckoning With Cold War Deceptions
“Kairos” is both a novel about the collision between two people and about the collision of two German lives.
June 19, 2023
Indigo Olivier
“Black History Is an Absolute Necessity.”
A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism
June 19, 2023
Magazine
Andre Pagliarini
The Plan to Split Democracies Into Tiny Pieces
From start-up countries to gated communities, privately ruled zones can sidestep taxes, regulation, and democratic rule itself.
June 16, 2023
Magazine
Maggie Doherty
Lorrie Moore Turns to Stranger Things
“I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home” blends the historical and the present, the real world and the spiritual.
June 15, 2023
David Klion
The Convenient Omissions in
Arnold
The Netflix documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t know quite what to do with his disturbing rise in politics.
June 13, 2023
Jack McCordick
The Pandemic’s Gun Surge Offers a Frightening Glimpse of the Future
A sociologist spoke with 50 gun sellers about 2020’s dramatic uptick in firearms sales and its effects.
June 9, 2023
Magazine
Phillip Maciak
The Other Two
Captures the Strangeness of Social Media Stardom
No other show better understands the slippage between who we are in private and who we are in public.
June 8, 2023
Hannah Rosefield
Going It Alone, With Help from Joni Mitchell
“Arrangements in Blue” and “A Life of One’s Own” work through the puzzles of single life through art and music.
June 5, 2023
David Klion
Reality Winner’s Story Was Never About a Leak
Tina Satter’s film “Reality” on HBO captures the cruelty of the surveillance state.
June 2, 2023
Jordan Michael Smith
How Russia Got the Ukraine War Wrong
Centuries of history fed into Putin’s disastrous decision to go to war.
June 1, 2023
Jacob Bacharach
The True Mystery in James Comey’s Crime Novel
What do politicos turned authors know that we don’t?
May 26, 2023
Phillip Maciak
The End of
Succession
Is the End of an Era in TV
Just not in the way you might think.
May 23, 2023
Erin Somers
Martin Amis Let His Readers in on the Joke
Amis trusted you to keep pace with his wit, his bawdiness, his erudition. His work seems to say: You and me—we get it.
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