Reviews
‘Giant’ dramatizes Roald Dahl’s antisemitism controversy
The incendiary Olivier Award–winning play Giant, which premiered in London last year, comes to Broadway this spring with a regrettably timely message. The titular giant is Roald Dahl, the cantankerous, 6' 6'',…
Revisiting the Church Committee Report in the Trump era
It's not a good sign when a 50-year-old Senate committee report on illegal government activities is relevant and timely enough for a new release. The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s…
5 GUM’s sour to sweet berry flavor-changing gum ain’t it
Willy Wonka's "three-course dinner gum" captured my imagination when I first saw the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as a kid. Violet Beauregarde—one of the many unappealing children in the…
‘Origin Story’ podcast covers the history of socialism
English journalists Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt have produced an engaging and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny journey from the earliest days of socialism to the present. Season Eight of their podcast Origin Story runs nearly…
Did the feds finally crack the food pyramid code? Probably not.
Even in a best-case scenario, the official federal food pyramid is little more than a lagging indicator of conventional wisdom on nutrition that is easily available from dozens—hundreds!—of other reliable sources. In a…
‘Collateral Damage’ podcast details drug war tragedies
Collateral Damage, a new podcast at The Intercept hosted by criminal justice reporter Radley Balko, examines "the half-century-long war on drugs, its enduring ripple effects, and the devastating consequences of building…
‘Age of Disclosure’ documentary argues aliens visited Earth
The Age of Disclosure, a documentary by Dan Farah, promises to prove that the U.S. government is hiding evidence of alien visits to Earth. Farah gets an impressive 34 government officials and advisers on the record about the…
‘Train Dreams’ depicts the price of progress
Train Dreams is a movie about a complicated truth: that life can be beautiful and cruel at the same time. Based on Denis Johnson's novella, it follows Robert Grainier, a logger in the Pacific Northwest during the age of…
‘Stranger Things’ and moral responsibility
Stranger Things' fifth season delivered an epic conclusion to one of Netflix's most popular shows. In the process, the Duffer brothers, creators and showrunners, communicated a libertarian message about moral…
Review: Resisting the Hive Mind Virus in PLUR1BUS
Would you trade your identity for utopia? Apple TV's science fiction series PLUR1BUS examines whether a perfect world is worth the loss of everyone's individuality. When an alien virus turns the world's…
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