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Why a ‘Meditation Rabbi’ is Watching Horror Films
In 2025, catharsis takes a little more energy.
Aug 20 • 
Jay Michaelson
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Nick Drake is Just in Time
Beautiful, tragic music for a melancholy, tragic summer
Jul 29 • 
Jay Michaelson
27
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Andor and the Banality of Totalitarianism
The psychologies of complicity and resistance -- a parable for our times.
Apr 30 • 
Jay Michaelson
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Kinds of Kindness is a Great Film About the Psychological Roots of Fascism
Which I found perversely comforting.
Jul 9, 2024 • 
Jay Michaelson
10
4
Civil War is brilliant, but the bad guys are mostly offscreen
Yes, Americans are enraged. But what about the people and companies enraging them?
Apr 18, 2024 • 
Jay Michaelson
19
"Leave the World Behind" Filled Me with Dread
And not only of the end of the world.
Dec 20, 2023 • 
Jay Michaelson
6
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