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  • Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ Seethes with Class Rage

    Class is back on the big screen. From Sorry to Bother You to Joker, the past year has seen an explosion of popular movies that offer, with varying degrees of coherence, a critique of contemporary capitalism. But perhaps no recent film does so with more savvy than Parasite, a new…

  • Scary Stories to Tell at the End of History

    ‘Scary Stories’ is set in a past haunted by the Vietnam War, made for adults haunted by eternal remixes of their youth, and aimed at a future straining to reconcile the ghosts of its past. The film winds up nostalgic for a past no one experienced. It’s a product of…

  • Tim Faust Lays Out the Case for Radical Change in Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next

    For as much as Health Justice Now is about the machinations of health finance and the details of single-payer, it’s also a book about health as a function of power. It’s a book about a society that makes us sick, then punishes, scams, and profits off of us for it.