It’s been a terrible week, news-wise. The Libya situation is bad enough, but having Romney gleefully exploit it to push racist buttons with his base was even more terrible. Not because I think it hurts Obama—probably the opposite—but because that’s how ugly and low modern conservatism really is. There’s the…
Erik Loomis writes a post observing how British films still often concern themselves with the stories of working class people, but that everyone who falls outside of the realm of the wealthy and the white collar middle class has disappeared from American cinema. I don’t have many expectations from the…