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HOW THE MEDIA HELPED ELECT TRUMP IN 2024
2026 Introduction:
First of all, we need to recognize that we’re always dealing with stories. No news comes to us by way of bald facts. They are always encased in narratives. Sometimes those narratives are deliberately constructed to pers...
On Puppies and Maidservants in Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
1. Introduction: Not Just a Movie
“It’s a movie, why can’t you just enjoy it? And anyway, all adaptations are subjective. He has a right to his.”
This kind of response—and there have been many like it— brought back the nausea of tea...
From the BordoLines Archives: Some Scenes From this Season of ‘The Pitt” That Got Me in the Feels
1. The Samovar
Ironically, ours belongs to my husband Edward, who is a blue-blooded WASP. He is also a scholar of Russian language, literature, and culture, which is how he came to have one. I don’t know whether or not any of my Russi...
Christopher Nolan Rubs Me The Wrong Way
I don’t know what irritates me more, the movies themselves or the collective judgment that they are masterpieces with profound messages about the disasters that men unleash on the world and then get to brood about.
On “The Odyssey,” P...
Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and the “Progressive”/“Establishment” Myth That Divided “The Left” and Still Dominates Political Discourse.
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Feminist philosopher and media maven specializing in U.S. politics and culture. Author of influential books on the female body, masculinity, Anne Boleyn, Hillary Clinton, Post-Trump politics, and TV.
I am the author of six books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy Melville House Books) and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Laurel Brett is teacher, writer, mother Nature is her consolation. Her novel, THE SCHRÖDINGER GIRL is out and her debut poetry collection is available for preorder at Indolent Books.
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