Weimar Comedies Have Us Laughing on the Precipice
Did Weimar cinema predict Germany’s yearning for a strong leader? Or was it largely the escapist nonsense everyone else was making?
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What Will Come? COVID-19 and the Politics of Economic Depression
The financial crash of 2008-2010 reemphasized that traumatic economic shifts drive political change, so what might we imagine — or fear — will emerge from the COVID-19 depression?
‘Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty’ Memoir Rejects Hagiography
In Kate Hennessy, a cautious voice emerges over the pious chatter about her famous grandmother, activist Dorothy Day.
The Problem of the Presidency: Assessing Herbert Hoover
Perhaps, Kenneth Whyte suggests, Hoover was not the failure he is often made out to be, and consequently, FDR is not nearly the success he appears to have been.
The Great Depression-Era’s Forgotten Hollywood Man
Hollywood may have been deemed the “dream factory”, but the devastation of the Great Depression lurked just beneath the cinematic narrative.