Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 16th

One of Chantal Akerman’s Best Films Is in Legal Limbo

Much of direction is production: the material conditions under which a movie is made plays a major role in the creative process. Movie lovers tend to think of producers as dictators of formulas, oppressors of originality, the enemies of art, but that just reflects the unfortunate history of studio filmmaking in Hollywood and elsewhere. In […]

Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 10th

“Weather forecast in a moment, but, first, here’s Jen with the latest in sports.”

The Man Who Thinks Trump Should Be King

The New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Kofman’s recent Profile of the iconoclastic right-wing blogger Curtis Yarvin. They discuss Yarvin’s desire to end American democracy by installing a monarch, whether his provocations can be seen as trolling, and how his writings have found a receptive audience among conservative politicians and […]