What does it mean to understand man well enough to create one? Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Articles
A discussion of the television series Blue Bloods. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
(Co-authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)
Forget about North Korea and The Interview: For decades Hollywood has been censoring its own output to protect access to the Chinese market.
(Co-authored with Jeffrey Gedmin)
What the New Republic and the Washington Redskins have in common.
Part of the Shadow Play article series.
America’s eternal secular messianic temptation has now alighted on gender equality.
House of Cards is a hit in China, too. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
American cultural diplomacy has sought to balance artistic cultivation with democratic and inclusive values. Published in "Europe in Search of Europeans," Vol. 16 no. 1.
A review of Inside Llweyin Davis (2013). Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Why Breaking Bad is unexpectedly good. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
A test of this insight is The Great Gatsby, the latest screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and co-written and directed by the Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann. Part of… read more...
China plans to blow up Hollywood's monopoly. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Lincoln and Django Unchained represent what passes for artistic sensibility in today's Hollywood. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
The high priestess of Change Your Life TV. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
What soap operas at home and abroad teach us. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Each episode in the TV series Sex and the City begins with a questions, some more portentous than others. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Cambridge, MA, March 15 2014 -- Noh Hao, at 25 the social media's youngest -- and first female -- multibillionaire, explains her meteoric success in an exclusive interview with Martha Bayles. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Avatar is the latest example of where art, politics, and theology meet. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Can any film do justice to the political genius of Abraham Lincoln?
Review of The Cold War and the United States Information Agency, by Nicholas J. Cull
War and torture get the Hollywood treatment. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a blurry copy of the Hong Kong original. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
The merciless comic keeps hitting below the Borscht Belt. Part of the Shadow Play article series.