The Post Makes the Case for a Free Press
Timing is everything, and Steven Spielberg’s The Post could not have come out at a more ideal time. While there are those who would [...]
New York Times
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – What’s Old Is New Again
Looking around during a preview of The Last Jedi, I had a startling thought: most of the press people in the audience hadn’t yet been [...]
Intelligence – Outing a CIA Operative
In 2002, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson was sent to the the African nation of Niger to assess whether Iraq was buying uranium ore to [...]
The Press Takes a Hard Look at Itself this Saturday
How responsible has the media been for the success of Donald Trump’s candidacy? Is the “rigged media” now being unfair to him as the [...]
Five Films About Whistleblowers
With Oliver Stone’s Snowden in theaters (read our review), now seems like a good time to remember some other cinematic entries about [...]
Linda Greenlaw’s Perfect Storm
“The Hannah boat is skippered by a Colby College grad named Linda Greenlaw. Not only is Greenlaw one of the only women in the [...]
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