Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Didion reminds us that while youth culture and political leaders may change, our underlying drives and delusions seldom do.
Reviews
40 Years a Prisoner
The new HBO documentary looks at what happened before, during, and after the 1978 MOVE shootout in Philadelphia.
Townscaper
A new type of city-building game which will make you feel like you've been administered a digital Valium
History of Swear Words
The most interesting aspect of the series is how it unintentionally reveals our conflicted relationship with profanity.
Wollstonecraft
A new book aims to reveal the rest of Mary Wollstonecraft's worldview beyond her support for women's rights
Belly of the Beast
A new documentary explores forced sterilizations in California's women's prisons.
The Queen's Gambit
The protagonist's speedy evolution into an anti–Cold Warrior is the better subplot.
Substack
The paid online newsletter service allows writers the opportunity to keep more of the fruits of their labors.
How To Fix the Internet
Each episode explores how to fix laws that entrench privacy-violating practices.
The Mandalorian
The show offered a revived vision of Star Wars as a playground for elaborate narrative and worldbuilding.
The Dakota Entrapment Tapes
The new documentary hammers home the senselessness of the war on drugs.
Neutron Gun Reloaded
Gerry Reith's raw, paranoid, apocalyptic fables were shot through with distrust for just about every institution around.
Meddling in the Ballot Box
As long as there have been American elections, foreign powers have sought to influence them.
Wasteland 3
It's a telling sign when a video game opens with a warning that the events it depicts might be a little too close to life.
Trial 4
Ellis' story is a vivid illustration of the principle that justice delayed is justice denied.
CNA Editor's Desk
Parsing issues at the intersection of current affairs and the world's largest religious denomination is no easy task.
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Aaron Sorkin takes on the famous trial of activists who organized an anti-war protest during the 1968 Democratic convention.
Time
This documentary reminds us that the time people lose while "doing time" can never be replaced or relived.
90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?
The TLC show follows six couples whose marriages were the culmination of the K-1 visa process.
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
A look at how Hollywood functioned prior to contracts detailing how much breast or cheek an actress must show to earn her paycheck
Perry Mason
Whether the state is merely incompetent or actively corrupt, the show suggests the burdens of its failures fall primarily on the poor and the vulnerable.
Welfare for the Rich
The book details how the wealthy use the power of the state to snatch your money for their farms, stadiums, banks, real estate developments, and more.
Guns and Control
San Francisco writer Guy Smith finds little evidence that the availability of firearms explains differences in suicide and homicide rates.
Apocalypse Never
The book argues that rising prosperity and increasing technological prowess will ameliorate or reverse most deleterious environmental trends.
Welcome to Chechnya
The documentary follows the harrowing efforts of activists running what is essentially a modern underground railroad to help at-risk gay citizens flee the country.
Prison by Any Other Name
State involvement in people's lives—even "for their own good"—ends up becoming a backdoor way of policing and control.
Throw a Billion Dollars From the Helicopter
A tale of ballpark upgrades and wasteful government spending
Marijuana Federalism
How do we resolve the cannabis conflict between state legalization and federal prohibition?
Immortality, Inc.
Meet the wild dreamers and wealthy financiers striving for human immortality.
