Top Gun Maverick: Hollywood Sells Nationalism as Social Service
Hollywood yokes together a disparate, diverse nation with a bloody past and burnishes its image. Bollywood needs to do the same.
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Foreign-Language Entertainment Is Having Its Soft-Power Moment
As foreign-language entertainment grows in popularity, audiences from all over the world can finally enjoy a much broader and immersive experience of other cultures.
Has Johnny Depp Lost His Mind?
Depp must have known that the lawsuit would either liberate him from sordid hearsay or condemn him.
Star Trek vs. the Radical Right: Visions of a Better World
Guillaume Faye’s writing is a prime example of how radical-right fictional accounts imagine the transformation toward what the radical right considers a better world.
Racism Is in Bollywood’s DNA
Bollywood perpetuates the misogyny, sexism and racism that have blighted Indian society for centuries and still harm millions of women today.
America’s Parallel Realities: Are We All in the Wrong Movie?
What is most striking in today’s America is the fundamental disjointedness, for lack of a better word, between realities.
What “Indian Matchmaking” Tells Us About Love
Is the tradition of arranged marriage hopelessly outdated, or does it hold valuable lessons about lasting relationships?
Young Men, Alienation and Violence in the Digital Age
As COVID-19 forces more of us to shift our lives online, it is essential to understand and combat deeply entrenched loneliness and its potential to intersect with extreme and violent corners of the internet.
