Scapegoats in a City Under Siege
The Central Park Five is a powerful reminder of what can happen when innocents are caught up in racial divisions and tensions they didn’t create and railroaded for a crime they didn’t commit, and when all of the city’s institutions collaborate in the horrific act. {…}
Margaret: Making It Right, Coming of Age
Kenneth Lonergan may be a relative novice as a film director, but he knows that high art, at its best, subverts the ground of our psychological or political being. Margaret is a film that makes no attempt to soothe its audience. {…}
Fathers and Sons
P.T. Anderson is less interested in structures and institutions than in the psychological and archetypal nature of his bigger-than-life, sometimes mad characters. And so his latest film, The Master, isn’t the docudrama about a Scientology-like cult that some people expected it to be. {…}
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Belabored Podcast #7: Social Arsonists· May 24, 2013 ·
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Traversing the U.S. Food System: An Interview with Tracie McMillan· May 22, 2013 ·
