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At an April screening of Love & Friendship, a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s early epistolary novel, Lady Susan, director Whit Stillman explained to the audience that he aimed to emphasize “comedy over romance.” These are tidings of great joy for admirers of the English novelist, who have longed for the day when some canny filmmaker would decide to foreground her satirical wit, which is especially sharp when aimed at tangled issues of class and gender. It seems a shame that one of the most... Читать дальше...

In a recent issue of In These Times, Sady Doyle made “A Progressive Case for Hillary Clinton.” That such a case could be made might come as a surprise to many progressives, considering that Hillary Clinton has, for instance, derided single-payer healthcare as something that will “never, ever come to pass,” and has poohed-poohed calls for free public higher education by stating that students need more “skin in the game.”

[Below is part 2 of Noam Chomsky’s essay, “Masters of Mankind,” excerpted from his new book, Who Rules the World? If you missed the first part of his essay, click here to read it. This piece first appeared in TomDispatch.]

EUGENE, OREGON—Days after disposing of his final two Republican opponents, Donald Trump had transitioned to the general election against Hillary Clinton—who he is now referring to as “crooked Hillary.” At a rally on May 6 in Eugene, before a few thousand supporters, Trump described his travels around New York State.

In 2011, shortly before her Massachusetts Senate campaign, Elizabeth Warren attempted to shake the nation’s core belief in autonomy and individualism. Addressing those who believed that their fates were solely the result of their own sheer will, Warren countered by offering a narrative that suggested that our paths are always bound up in those of one another. "There is nobody in this country that got rich on his own. Nobody," she stated.