Boston Review3d
Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
When Elon Musk called Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time” on Joe Rogan’s podcast on February 28, he was, ...
The Tufts Daily4d
DOGE should dream bigger
Reducing the size of the federal government has long been a major goal for conservatives. However, since the New Deal, the ...
Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
Joan Didion fell in love with movies as a girl but would sour on Hollywood after working there, Alissa Wilkinson writes in ...
In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
Alissa Wilkinson's book explores Joan Didion's work as a film critic and screenwriter and what she understood about Hollywood ...
National Review4d
Barry Goldwater, RIP
On Election Day Goldwater suffered a devastating defeat ... years later the world was made to stand on its head when Ronald Reagan was swept into office on a platform indistinguishable from ...
The Walrus4d
They Sold Out Big Bird, and They’ll Sell Out the Rest of Us Too
The cancellation of Big Bird and co. would be a loss, but there’s something bigger going on. Sesame Street ’s fate is symptomatic of a larger shift in how corporations, governments, and, increasingly, ...
Variety4d
In ‘We Tell Ourselves Stories,’ Alissa Wilkinson Explores Joan Didion’s Time in Hollywood: ‘It’s a New Framework to Look at Her Work’
I hadn’t thought all that much about the fact that if I wrote this book, I was going to be writing about Ronald Reagan and John Wayne and Barry Goldwater, and how there’s crossover between ...
AOL6d
Joan Didion was famously reserved. But she openly adored John Wayne and Old Hollywood
“Goldwater was a commanding presence who projected ... that moral hollowness found its ideal spokesman in Ronald Reagan, a minor Hollywood actor who leveraged his position as a Screen Actors ...
Flathead Beacon3d
Have We Been Roped?
It’s been two years since an embattled western Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke climbed back in the congressional saddle by warning that a “deep state” consisting of entrenched “billionaires” was seeking “to ...