Culturally Determined

How sexual harassment derailed Kate's journalism career ... When a reporter's source is a predator ... Loving The Last Jedi, despite the flaws ... The Star Wars universe gets bigger (but maybe not better) ... Shylock, Shakespeare's oddly sympathetic villain ... Is Harold Bloom wrong about Falstaff? ...

How sexual harassment derailed Kate's journalism career ... When a reporter's source is a predator ... Loving The Last Jedi, despite the flaws ... The Star Wars universe gets bigger (but maybe not better) ... Shylock, Shakespeare's oddly sympathetic villain ... Is Harold Bloom wrong about Falstaff? ...

Plumbing the psychological depths of Donald Trump Jr. ... Is the real thing he’s hunting for just daddy’s love? ... Making sense of Billy Bush’s redemption tour   ... The problem with public apologies ... Are fears of a post-Weinstein backlash overblown? ...

Plumbing the psychological depths of Donald Trump Jr. ... Is the real thing he’s hunting for just daddy’s love? ... Making sense of Billy Bush’s redemption tour   ... The problem with public apologies ... Are fears of a post-Weinstein backlash overblown? ...

The history of laughing at Nazis, starting with Chaplin in The Great Dictator ... Making fun of Hitler after WWII ... How The Producers shocked viewers just 22 years after WWII ... Is there such a thing as a good Holocaust joke? ... Why jokes about ISIS differ in meaning across borders ... Christa: SNL’s Trump jokes are not subversive ...

The history of laughing at Nazis, starting with Chaplin in The Great Dictator ... Making fun of Hitler after WWII ... How The Producers shocked viewers just 22 years after WWII ... Is there such a thing as a good Holocaust joke? ... Why jokes about ISIS differ in meaning across borders ... Christa: SNL’s Trump jokes are not subversive ...

Omar’s new dystopian novel, American War ... A future where fossil fuels lead to civil war ... How the novel's narrator shows "the violence of malleable history” ... How the Bouazizi Empire became the global superpower ... Omar: In fiction, you can craft the contours of your world ... Why the book might, or might not, spawn a TV series ...

Twitter and the fallout from the Weinstein scandal ... Will the #metoo movement make a difference? ... How block lists protect Twitter users from abuse ... Danielle illustrates how Facebook's hate speech policies fall short ... Rethinking the term “revenge porn” ...

David’s path from a college humor magazine to the White House ... David: Trump doesn’t hate Obama—he envies him ... Obama’s “real” sense of humor ... The story behind Obama meeting his “Anger Translator” ... Why is Sean Spicer a household name? ...

After Trump, do ideas even matter? ... Why Trump and Obama both reject "the Blob” ... How foreign leaders make sense of Trump’s public contradictions ... Do rumor mills have a place in the ideas industry? ... Dan: TED Talks are for thought leaders, not public intellectuals ...