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The Jewishness of "Oppenheimer" | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Christopher Nolen’s Oppenheimer, a biopic about the famed scientist who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb, is a surpr…
3 years ago
Right-Wing Attacks on Small-Town Libraries; plus “The Snow Leopard” | Start Making Sense
Public Libraries are often wonderful places, but they have become targets of right-wing attack in the culture war. On this episode of the Start Makin…
3 years ago
Basketball Butterfly Effect | Edge of Sports
This week we speak to basketball savant Arya Shirazi about what could have happened if the Detroit Pistons had drafted Carmelo Anthony instead of Dar…
3 years ago
Stripping The Court of Its Power | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Instead of reforming how the Supreme Court uses its power, what if we took its power away?
Harvard Law School professor, Ryan Doerfler, and Michigan L…
3 years ago
It’s a Barbie World But Is That a Good Thing? | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Barbie has smashed through the glass ceiling. Greta Gerwig’s new movie based on the popular Mattel doll is the big summer film of 2023. It’s made mor…
3 years ago
Erwin Chemerinsky on The Trump Indictment, plus Katha Pollitt on “Barbie” | Start Making Sense
Should Trump have been charged with incitement of insurrection, or at least violence? What’s the line between free speech and incitement? If Trump si…
3 years ago
How to Fix The Supreme Court’s Ethics Problem | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
The Supreme Court has a serious ethics problem—actually, ethics problems. The justices have been dogged by allegations of corruption. They’ve been pe…
3 years ago
The Secret Origins of Marvel | Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Disney has released a new documentary which myself and many others have criticized for regurgitating a mythical version of history that extolls Stan …
3 years ago
Trump’s Trials, plus Barbie and Oppie | Start Making Sense
This month, Donald Trump will be facing four indictments in four different jurisdictions at the same time, each for multiple felonies. Yet, Republica…
3 years ago
Finding the Balance | Contempt of Court with Elie Mystal
Beyond raw court expansion, or the (probably unconstitutional) big stick of forced term-limits, there are a number of other ways one might go about b…
3 years, 1 month ago