Tags: Staff Reviews
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Oblivion and Upstream Color
Tom Cruise copes with a post-apocalyptic future, new indie offers a baffling present.
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A Never-Ending Game of Cat and Mouse
The battle between smugglers and the state forged the U.S.
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Understanding Scientology
A new book examines the controversial church.
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The Infinite World of Bioshock
Bioshock Infinite makes a strong case that video games can be great pop art.
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How Free Markets and Human Ingenuity Can Save the Planet
A review of The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas.
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To the Wonder and Disconnect
Terrence Malick stuck on repeat, Jason Bateman standing tall in the cyber-dark.
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The Long, Fruitful History of Music Piracy
Music and intellectual property law.
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Life Is Not Fair
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Love in the Future
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Don’t Believe Your Eyes
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Footbridge City
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Voices from Afghanistan
Without intending to, Peter Eichstadt makes the case for getting out of Afghanistan.
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Who Put the Coca in Cola?
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The Place Beyond the Pines and The Host
Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper wrestle with fate, a sci-fi flick goes down for the count.
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Hacking for Freedom
Cory Doctorow’s sequel to Little Brother explores the struggle for civil liberties on the Internet.
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Is Anarchism Socialist or Capitalist?
A new defense of libertarian anarchism makes the case that the philosophy belongs on the left.
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Olympus Has Fallen and Admission
Gerard Butler battles North Korean invaders, Tina Fey takes on Princeton.
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The Conquest of the Future
The lost tomorrows of Gerald O’Neill and Eric Drexler’s visions of infinite space and abundance.
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Spring Breakers and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
James Franco scuzzes it up, Steve Carell tries to work some magic.
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The Second Great Crypto War
The founder of Wikileaks issues a call to cryptographic arms.