Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
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Jamal El-Haj is a Social Democratic member of Parliament for Malmö, Sweden’s third-biggest city. In 2018, he called Israel an “apartheid state.” Rather than censure him, Magdalena Andersson, the Social Democratic prime minister, appointed El-Haj to the foreign affairs committee. Before we laugh too hard at the wacky Scandi socialists, remember that House Democrats did much the same with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in January 2023.
In a country in which individualism sometimes seems to blot out all other values, it was perhaps inevitable that our movie screens were for so long dominated by solemn, solitary Western stars. During the first half of the last century, audiences embraced the meanness of John Wayne, the pinched reserve of Randolph Scott, the enigmatic ambivalence of Clint Eastwood, and the inscrutable heroism of Alan Ladd. The public understood that these men’s antisocial qualities were inseparable from their guts and professionalism.
The work of Brit Marling, the screenwriter and actress behind Netflix’s 2016 puzzle box The OA, can only be described as interestingly flawed. That series, her debut as a showrunner, was a saga of dimension-hopping and imprisonment, co-starring Phyllis from The Office and featuring a school shooting thwarted by synchronized dance. And that’s barely scratching the surface of its weirdness. That Marling was the creative force behind the cult-hit films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth (both 2011) merely adds to her intrigue. Like all artists with a slightly too specific vision, Marling produces content that repels and entices in equal measure. Yet it’s hard not to think she could create something thrilling if she aimed only a little more broadly.