Director Ava DuVernay on “Selma” and “A Wrinkle in Time”
No film adaptation of “A Wrinkle In Time,” Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved, and often banned, children’s book, published in 1962, has ever made it to American movie theaters. It finally comes to the scree...
20 Feb 201830min
A Reckoning at Facebook
We now know that Russian operatives exploited Facebook and other social media to sow division and undermine the election of 2016, and special counsel Robert Mueller recently indicted Russian nationals...
16 Feb 201826min
Ian Frazier Among the Drone Racers
Ian Frazier, who has chronicled American life for The New Yorker for more than forty years, recently travelled to a house in Fort Collins, Colorado, where three roommates build, fly, and race drones. ...
13 Feb 201824min
Extremists on the Ballot, and America’s Endless War in Afghanistan
The 2016 Presidential primaries were a rebuke to moderates in both parties. Bernie Sanders, a sometime Democratic Socialist, built a grassroots movement that bitterly rejected the centrist Hillary Cli...
9 Feb 201830min
Ryan Zinke’s Deregulation Quest, and the Future of Meatless Burgers
As a congressman from Montana, Ryan Zinke was considered a moderate—he resisted radical suggestions, for example, to turn over federal land to the states. But, as Secretary of the Interior, he is at t...
6 Feb 201823min
Laura Kipnis on the State of #MeToo, and a Night at Richard Nixon’s
Laura Kipnis is a professor at Northwestern University and a provocative feminist critic. Her book “Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus” states, “If this is feminism, it’s feminism hija...
2 Feb 201832min
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Discovering America
The novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has had commercial and critical success: Her best-seller “Americanah” won a National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and a speech she gave on feminism was ...
30 Jan 201830min
Nathan Lane, Getting Serious, Plays Roy Cohn
Nathan Lane may be best known for supplying the voice of the fun-loving meerkat in “The Lion King,” but in recent years he’s turned his focus to more serious roles. Now he’s playing the villain, Roy C...
26 Jan 201825min
