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Winter 2024
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Plastic People
There has long been a gap between stereotypical ideas of women’s empowerment and gendered reality. Barbie explores these contradictions in miniature.
Cruelty and Luxury: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie at Fifty
Luis Buñuel’s most famous film is a furious, if restrained, critique of the wealthy and a scathing look inside their collective unconscious.
Ultra Violence
Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.
The Language of Democracy
In Plain Style, Christopher Lasch showed that we can render even the most iconoclastic demands in common speech.
A Museum for the Working Class
The Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art offers a place for working-class art without tokenizing or empty gestures of representation.
Drag Race to the Bottom
The so-called drag golden age is really a gilded age, where the runaway success of a few is made possible at the expense of the many.
The Agoraphobic Fantasy of Tradlife
In an increasingly expensive and antisocial world, tradwives forsake life with others for the lonely, constrictive spaces of bourgeois ownership.
Iran’s Cinema of Resistance
Independent filmmakers offer a vital portal into the struggle against the theocratic regime.
Con City
If it is actually built, Akon City will be a monument to capital, excess, and waste.
Masters of None
The White House MasterClass series is a symptom of a moribund political culture in which power transforms a person into a celebrity.
The Lost Art of Looking at Nature
While David Attenborough’s work rarely gives center stage to climate change, his project has always been to shift how humans relate to nature.
The Art of War
Like almost every other war film, The Battle at Lake Changjin is less a work of art than a social engineering project.
Therapy With a Human Face
The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach.
Maybe We Could Be Each Other’s Moms
The core spirit of Sex Education, easily missed on account of its boisterous sex-positivity, is the sophisticated sexual prudence of Generation Z.
