This essay originally appeared in the May 2008 issue of In These Times. When ITT told me that they’d like to re-run the piece on-line (Hillary stories never get old), they gave me the option of “readjusting” it for today’s news cycle.
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Some Republican presidential candidates are clamoring for increased U.S. military aid to “moderate” rebels battling Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship in Syria.
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The Hateful Eight is a gloriously grotesque oddity made by a talented freak conjuring up some obscure meaning that’s for him to know and us to find out. Only Quentin Tarantino’s immense popularity, based on his films’ cathartic gouts of blood and dialogue, could have allowed him to make such a crazy and compelling Grand Guignol Western.
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