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Thursday, September 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Sonja Anderson The Smithsonian, Aug. 24, 2023 “She could be vicious. She was like an animal, a lioness … crouching, ready to kill anyone who hurt her people, very protective. … She could be tough, very, very tough. She could wither you with just a look.” Before Golda Meir accepted the nomination for prime minister […]
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Thursday, August 17th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023
Jay Caspian Kong New Yorker, Aug. 15, 2023 “The main reason this song resonates with so many people isn’t political,” the conservative blogger and filmmaker Matt Walsh tweeted. “It’s because the song is raw and authentic. We are suffocated by artificiality. Everything around us is fake. A guy in the woods pouring his heart over his […]
J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, Aug. 15, 2023 “It’s not even about whether there are jobs. It’s not about chinning up and learning to code.” I imagine readers all know who Oliver Anthony is. A Virginia factory worker, farmer, and bluegrass singer whose song “Rich Men North of Richmond” has gone pandemic in the infosphere […]
Jennifer Graham Deseret News, Aug. 15, 2023 “You don’t have to be a fan of the movie or the song to be disappointed by this turn of events. And to be clear — there’s no proof that any of these accusations are true.” At first glance, “Rich Men North of Richmond” and “The Blind […]
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Friday, July 28th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
COMPLEX VIVID PORTRAIT Oppenheimer’ Review: A Man for Our Time: Manohla Dargis, NY Times, July 19, 2023 — “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s staggering film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb,” condenses a titanic shift in […]
PJ Grisar The Jewish News of North California, July 19, 2023 “Nolan frames the biography with two inquisitions: Oppenheimer’s infamous AEC hearing in 1954, which saw him lose his security clearance; and Strauss’ 1959 grilling in the Senate, where he was denied confirmation as Eisenhower’s secretary of commerce — largely due to his treatment of […]
Megan McCluskey TIME, July 21, 2023 “Antisemitism impacted him throughout his time studying at Harvard, and later, amid the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany, changed the way he engaged with his Jewishness.” After months of building anticipation, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer arrived in theaters Friday, kickstarting an opening weekend where it’s expected to collect around $50 […]
Andy Kifer Smithsonian Magazine, July 18, 2023 “I don’t know how he had acquired this facility for handling people. Those who knew him well were really surprised.” Since the end of World War II, historians and artists alike have been fascinated by the brilliant, enigmatic J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project […]
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