Hollywood is choosing Chinese profits over American liberties.
America & the World
Ken Burn's The Vietnam War does not take sides. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Hollywood's romance with China may be breaking up. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
The Cold War novelist on the big and small screen. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Two television shows' very different outlooks on war and prisoners of war. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
House of Cards is a hit in China, too. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
China plans to blow up Hollywood's monopoly. 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.
War and torture get the Hollywood treatment. Part of the Shadow Play article series.
Review of The Cold War and the United States Information Agency, by Nicholas J. Cull
The new head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, ostensibly dedicated to
furthering American principles, is now endangering brave journalists who
have spent their careers defending them.
Five discomfiting aspects of the media spectacle that now accompanies every mass shooting.
A lesson from Nigeria, on balancing the blessings of modernity and the celebration of an ancestral past.
The campus free speech wars aren’t the only threat to American higher education.
The Trump presidency is giving Americans a crash course in civics. Are we capable of sharing the lessons with the world?