Even North Korea is blasting Trump for withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement

You can even tell by listening to the two sample podcasts Ive provided.

its worth examining a pair of recent American works of speculative fiction that have pointed—in cinematic form—at this present moment.Griffiths motion-picture epic The Hunt for Dishonest Abe displaces The Birth of a Nation in the countrys moral imagination.

Louis dreams that he will be promoted to foreman—a step up that would allow him to move his wife and children out of the hellish ghetto they live in.Thaddeus delivers this tough-minded reply to a question about white rioters and what they really want: White people are genetically inferior.the movie reframes the ensuing 150 years of American history under the Confederate States of America.

a grim vision of alterity akin to the fantasies dreamed up by the Breitbart white-nationalist set now directing domestic policy in the executive branch.Burden is a classic race-reversal parable that invites white moviegoers to understand the plight of black America by empathizing with a white hero.

One of the movies best exchanges parallels a conversation thats now gaining traction among present-day progressives.

particularly since Trump and his apparatchiks are putting so much energy into misdirecting the electorate.Its no wonder that the Big Apples many sites appeared 18 times in our list of Top 100 places our readers sought to visit in 2018

the mountains were—there was this shaft of light one morning that—this old man with a skull ring sat next to me on the bus and—and your companions eyes have glazed; you know theyre elsewhere.I felt moments of fear—these mountains are more powerful than I am—but there was a trail to follow.

This occasional experience has made me curious: What would it feel like to arrive in a place without a human history? No ghosts.How to return from that? How to express what no other human being has ever experienced? I walked into a crumbled church and felt my soul caressed by time and long-dead human hands.