Angelina Jolie Solo
Evgenia Peretz | Vanity Fair
“As it happens, the personal trauma has coincided with her most personal film yet. Jolie has directed a moving, large-scale adaptation of First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung’s 2000 memoir of the Khmer Rouge genocide. … If Cambodians consider the film to be something of a gift, then it’s surely a thank-you gift. For Jolie, Cambodia is where she started her family, and it’s where she made a cathartic personal transformation, becoming the woman she is today.”
The TV That Created Donald Trump
Emily Nussbaum | The New Yorker
“When Trump first entered TV, the entire medium had been dismissed as junk. Now, even as critics were swooning over the artistry of cable drama, Trump swerved deeper, into stranger regions, straight into the types of television that nobody took seriously, the ones dismissed as guilty pleasures.”
German Philosophy Has Finally Gone Viral. Will That Be Its Undoing?
Stuart Jeffries | Foreign Policy
“Such has German philosophy changed: Words like ‘delightful,’ ‘beguiling,’ and ‘easily consumable’ would never have been used when speaking of Immanuel Kant or Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. At its best, the trend indicates German philosophy is engaging a mass audience as never before. At its worst, this means philosophy is becoming an item of conspicuous consumption designed to flatter users’ intellectual self-images.”