Rick Perlstein
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"O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
The land that never has been yet..."
"Nouvelle Vague" was awfully weird, given that there's nothing on the music, which is half the experience of the "Breathless" film.
February 3, 2026 at 1:57 AM
"Nouvelle Vague" was awfully weird, given that there's nothing on the music, which is half the experience of the "Breathless" film.
What's Something Awful?
February 3, 2026 at 1:42 AM
What's Something Awful?
"Don't look away" has become a slogan of mine.
February 2, 2026 at 11:13 PM
"Don't look away" has become a slogan of mine.
Know this classic? www.nybooks.com/articles/197...
Fascinating Fascism | Susan Sontag
I First Exhibit. Here is a book of 126 splendid color photographs by Leni Riefenstahl, certainly the most ravishing book of photographs published anywhere
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February 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Know this classic? www.nybooks.com/articles/197...
I'm a fan of that.
February 2, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I'm a fan of that.
Seriously, I'd sneak in to watch it again just to study Baron's eyes. A mystery just out of reach.
The "Melania" movie is getting subject to perfectly reasonable mockery for its ridiculousness and perfectly reasonable rage for it corruption, but I'm here to say that if you are interested in how the American presidency works you should absolutely see it, and not to enjoy the camp. 1/x
February 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Seriously, I'd sneak in to watch it again just to study Baron's eyes. A mystery just out of reach.
In places where bigfoot reporters live, but it is the most-watched doc in ten years.
February 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
In places where bigfoot reporters live, but it is the most-watched doc in ten years.
Not this deeply backstage.
February 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Not this deeply backstage.
...but all presidencies, including the great ones, largely are. Think of FDR not letting people see him in a wheelchair.
February 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
...but all presidencies, including the great ones, largely are. Think of FDR not letting people see him in a wheelchair.
Sneak in, like I said.
February 2, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Sneak in, like I said.
I'm sorry. It was dumb.
February 2, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I'm sorry. It was dumb.
I just blew a gasket about an acculaton of stuff and lost my temper at a writer named David Avallo. I apologize to him. I deleted the half- baked list post.
February 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I just blew a gasket about an acculaton of stuff and lost my temper at a writer named David Avallo. I apologize to him. I deleted the half- baked list post.
I said that. Sneak in.
February 2, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I said that. Sneak in.
I despise these responses. Of course if I was an antifascist writer in 1935, I would see Triumph of the Will as evidence of how the Nazis stage the pageantry of power. Looking away is a better idea?
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I despise these responses. Of course if I was an antifascist writer in 1935, I would see Triumph of the Will as evidence of how the Nazis stage the pageantry of power. Looking away is a better idea?
She says to seek educational opportunities for foster children and not let kids do the Internet unsupervised. That's different?
FL's can individually be marvelous. (It wrote this). The institution sux. Remember the trouble Clinton got into when she veered from it?
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/o...
FL's can individually be marvelous. (It wrote this). The institution sux. Remember the trouble Clinton got into when she veered from it?
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/o...
Opinion | Betty Ford, Pioneer (Published 2011)
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February 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
She says to seek educational opportunities for foster children and not let kids do the Internet unsupervised. That's different?
FL's can individually be marvelous. (It wrote this). The institution sux. Remember the trouble Clinton got into when she veered from it?
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/o...
FL's can individually be marvelous. (It wrote this). The institution sux. Remember the trouble Clinton got into when she veered from it?
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/o...
It's about her in the sense that there's not a millisecond of screen time that is not precisely as she wishes it to be. Which is also fascinating: it shows what and and how she thinks.
February 2, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It's about her in the sense that there's not a millisecond of screen time that is not precisely as she wishes it to be. Which is also fascinating: it shows what and and how she thinks.
So he's asking for a consideration in order to participate in a discussion with him?
February 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
So he's asking for a consideration in order to participate in a discussion with him?
If she in fact destroyed the "office and idea of First Lady" that would be a marvelous gift to our republican form of government. Why do you disagree?
February 2, 2026 at 5:51 PM
If she in fact destroyed the "office and idea of First Lady" that would be a marvelous gift to our republican form of government. Why do you disagree?
She's very politically savvy.
February 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
She's very politically savvy.
I've written several. Seeing a movie like this would have made them better. It gives a window into how the bullshit gets made.
February 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I've written several. Seeing a movie like this would have made them better. It gives a window into how the bullshit gets made.
They don't stage glamorous balls as a projection of power? What planet do you live on?
February 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
They don't stage glamorous balls as a projection of power? What planet do you live on?
February 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM