Trade Talks
A new podcast reminds us that even complicated macroeconomic issues can be fruitfully reduced to the sum of individual action.
A new podcast reminds us that even complicated macroeconomic issues can be fruitfully reduced to the sum of individual action.
The film is suffused with the patronizing notion that good superheroes are benign despots who know what's best for the rest of us.
Lili Anolik weaves decades-old hot gossip into an insightful generational portrait of how media upheaval enabled fresh ways of telling stories.
The show eschews simplistic political commentary, choosing instead to spoof America's self-obsessed, self-dealing elites.
Pointing to famous walls in history, the exhibit acknowledges that the idea of borders is ancient—and regrettably, so is fear of foreigners.
James T. Bennett's libertarian critique argues that noncommercial radio can be detached from the state—and that it's better that way.
The true villains of Mike White's new show are two Gen Z college students practicing militant wokeness.
The TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov's classic trilogy is still fundamentally about the ways in which politics and objective truth inevitably clash.
The dystopian show portrays people caught up in South Korea's massive consumer debt culture.
For the most part, the series' characters revere due process rights rather than seeing them as something to be trampled in pursuit of justice.
Stanton Peele's memoir of his "lonely quest to change how we see addiction" contradicts the prejudices that still dominate the drug policy debate.
Sally Rooney's books mix moderately annoying Marxism with moderately depressing sex and produce results much better than you'd expect.
Books, films, and more related to the dissolution of the Soviet Union
Even the most powerful cosmic demigod can be foiled by the even-more-powerful machinations of bureaucracy.
The new podcast charts the changes to society wrought by mechanization, mass production, and scientific advancement.
Christian media has a track record of creating hopelessly bad productions, but Dallas Jenkins' TV series is a cut above.
Context, tradeoffs, and preferences matter—both in parenting and outside of it.
You can finally set up a farm with crops and animals such as cows, llamas, and chickens—heedless of zoning rules!
Netflix's limited series documents how bad forensics, faulty witness testimony, and misconduct by police and prosecutors let us down.
Sci-fi novelist Sarah Pinsker's new book deals with the ways technology shapes how we conceive of the inner self.
In the new sci-fi novel, humanity manages to save itself not with social revolution but through reason, technology, and innovation.
The board game lets gamers indulge in a little cooperative epidemiological roleplay.
Unearthed relics tell the story of the long-forgotten Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured the likes of Nina Simone, B.B. King, and Stevie Wonder.
A new podcast gives an autopsy of how a shadowy and charismatic crypto enthusiast was able to lure in so many people.
Harm reduction invites a radical reconsideration of the way the government deals with politically disfavored intoxicants.
The Netflix comedy special deals with the loneliness brought on by the pandemic.
The movie tells the story of an immigrant community coming together to forge its own future through commerce.
The HBO documentary provides plenty of examples of people conflating moral and medical judgments.
The book's cyborg-protagonist exhibits a Holmesian disdain for the fallibility and frailty of the human investigators with whom it's forced to collaborate.
Shary Flenniken portrayed her comic strip characters "with a complete lack of adult-world moralizing or editorial restraint."
Dull platitudes about diversity from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
For progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, getting elected was the easy part.
St. James fought for sex workers at a time when the mainstream U.S. feminist movement was hostile to them and leftist organizers portrayed them as victims.
The book argues that judges should take their responsibility as gatekeepers of scientific and technical evidence more seriously.
For a zine about "the sick and twisted hobbies of rich people throughout history," little time is spent actually indicting the aristocracy.
The new film never wavers in its appreciation for these seasteading heroes as they piss off all the right people in pursuit of their slice of utopia.
Historian Vincent Brown's new book examines the 18th-century slave insurrection, arguing it was really four different wars at once.
The movie depicts the fictionalized gathering of Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke, who spar over what each is doing to advance civil rights.
The show perfectly encapsulates the feelings of grief, confusion, and isolation born of the pandemic.
Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself is not merely a magic show or a one-man play.
The new documentary traces the evolution of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's attitude toward the Saudi regime.