From the 1980s to today, independent screenplays have used a distinct approach to cinematic storytelling.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Prohibition gave us speakeasies, jazz clubs and bathtub gin. But a new revisionist history uncovers a more disturbing legacy: campaigns against immigrants, the War on Drugs,and the rise of America's "incarceration nation" . Historian Lisa McGirr's "War on Alcohol" traces the unintended consequences of America's experiment in collective, state-sponsored renunciation.
Part of what makes city life great is the creative people who live in - and shape - them.
Jake Tapper tells Anne Strainchamps about the importance of lies during wartime and gives several examples of strategic deceptions.
Historian Ian Buruma tells Jim Fleming that economically China seems to be in better shape than Russia, but its situation is far more precarious in the long run.
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. is the author of "The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction."
James Miller has written a fascinating book called “Examined Lives," a collection of short biographies of philosophers from Socrates to Nietzsche...
Steve Young talks about his book, "Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals."
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