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Oppenheimer
I have a revolutionary idea for screen-writers and directors that might fundamentally change the way stories are told. Begin at the beginning and go to the end. I call this “linear storytelling”, and I’m confident that if somebody tried it, it would prove remarkably effective. Characters would develop in ways that surprise us. When their…
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How to Think About…The Israel-Gaza War
The Fallacy of a Solution Not every problem is solvable – at least in the sense of there being some immediate set of actions that will remove (or even alleviate) the problem. No single actor in the Middle East has control of the problem and most of those who might appear to be able to…
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RRR
Rambunctious, Revanchist and Ridiculous in the extreme, this might be the silliest movie since 300 (to which it bears a passing, well-oiled resemblance). But despite a disappointingly banal ending for the Governor’s wife (she deserved something more), it’s pretty sure to please from stem to stern. Best watched with a large and not very sober…
We are not rational animals, we are animals that must work to be rational
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