Culture
‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’: Film popularizes Thomas Piketty’s work
April 30, 2020The latest May Day movie release...playing at a sofa near you.
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European classical music in the U.S. and its foreign policy impact
April 30, 2020Scholar Jonathan Rosenberg simply cannot escape the tight fetters he's placed on his own work, and his innate, naïve confidence in American superiority and exceptionalism.
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Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’: Ambitious love letter to a tainted industry
April 29, 2020At a time when so-called “edgy” storytelling relies so heavily on tragic figures and miserable endings for the sake of “realism,” Hollywood’s attempt to give a little glimmer of joy is a breath of fresh air.
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L.A. in the sixties: Power to the people in the City of Angels
April 28, 2020This very readable but meticulously detailed year-by-year account has relevance far beyond its time and place.
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‘Babylon Berlin’ and origin of German fascism; ‘Superstore’ in age of Amazon
April 27, 2020A very strong aspect of 'Babylon Berlin' is that it does not reduce German fascism to Hitler, but instead depicts the much broader currents of the society that support it, including the aforesaid banks and investors...
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