Historical fiction becomes fact, hiding useful lessons
Summary: Historical fiction often blurs into real history. Too many historical facts are fabrications. We must learn to better distinguish between the two, and gather useful lessons from each.
Art, myth, & Literature
A tour of Harley Quinn’s Gotham
While watching Birds of Prey, I felt that its vision of Gotham might be our future. What might America look like after the collapse of all values? For one answer, Ian Michael takes us behind the scenes of Harley Quinn’s Gotham City.
Heroic Greta will be our Joan of Arc
The stories of Greta Thunberg and Joan of Arc are similarly bizarre, more like Santa Claus than history. Debunking Joan can help us better see Greta.
Films show our problems and why we can’t solve them
Films show our fears – and dreams of solutions. See how they have evolved over time, and the vital missing element that prevents us from solving our biggest problems.
Fourth-wave feminism on TV, shaping a new America
Our films show the media industries building a new America on the ruins of the old. It has been done before; it seldom ends well.