Tag: cultural critique

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Fictions Bonus: Submission

  January 12, 2025

  https://ift.tt/HmRbYE9 In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our summer fictions season David discusses Michel Houellebecq’s explosive political and intellectual satire Submission (2015). Published seven years before the French Presidential election of 2022 it… more ›

• Sinica Podcast: Inside Shen Yun and the Epoch Times, with NYT’s Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld

  January 9, 2025

  https://ift.tt/BWMto86 This week on Sinica, I speak with Nicole Hong and Michael Rothfeld, both investigative reporters at the New York Times, about a series of stories they've done, stretching between… more ›

• Past Present Future: The Great Political Films: The Social Network

  January 5, 2025

  https://ift.tt/kO3QYnT The second David Fincher film in our series (after Fight Club) is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take on how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and the price… more ›

• The Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties: La Notte, Last Year at Marienbad, La Dolce Vita

  January 4, 2025

  Two influential films from the 1960s that have sparked discussions about their artistic value and deeper meaning. In this excerpt, the author raises the question of whether these films, specifically… more ›

• The 20 Best Podcasts of 2024

  January 4, 2025

  Throughout 2024, podcast creators asked us to think twice about our preconceptions: They followed stories that were supposed to be over, engaged with people who tend to get dismissed, and… more ›