Aaron Sorkin and the Politics of Being Right
The Social Reckoning falls into the Aaron Sorkin trap: the seductive belief that exposing a logical fallacy demonstrates not only superior reasoning, but superior moral standing.
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How Aaron Sorkin and U2 Can Soothe the Pandemic Mind
Like Aaron Sorkin, the veteran rock band U2 has been making ambitious, iconic art for decades—art that can be soaring but occasionally self-important. Sorkin and U2's work draws parallels in comfort and struggle.
‘The American President’ and the Aesthetics of Rising Neoliberalism
In the prescient The American President, the president and his love interest push the liberal agenda while simultaneously living in the lap of luxury. Talk about having your cake and eating it, too.
‘Molly’s Game’: The Game Is Rigged, Lady
Aaron Sorkin's real-life twister about Molly Bloom, an Olympic skier turned high-stakes poker wrangler, is scorchingly fun but never takes its heroine as seriously as the men.
2017 Fall Film Preview: At Last, the Film Industry Awakens From Its Slumber
From Gary Oldman in The Darkest Hour to James Franco's meta-experiment Blade Runner: 2049 and Daniel Day-Lewis's final role, here are the movies you'll want to watch ... and a couple you might not.
Face-Off for Facebook: ‘The Social Network’
David Fincher formulates the arena where The Social Network’s combatants will draw weapons and fight. Aaron Sorkin merely provides sharpened and honed swords for the literate battle.