Новости за 25.07.2017

It’s hard to boil down all the ways the Trump campaign and presidency have reshaped American political norms into a single conceptual frame.

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.” Thus opens Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2016 nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies, which surveys the quieter, later battlefield of the Vietnam War. Memories, unlike gunfights, do not have beginnings or endings. They repeat and layer and merge with one another, brewing new dreams for the survivor each night. Shimon Peres wrote almost an identical phrase about memory in David’s Sling, which goes to show that all wars have certain things in common. Читать дальше...

The investigation into Russia’s interference in last year’s election is causing a slow-motion meltdown in President Donald Trump’s White House and making life increasingly uncomfortable for elected Republicans. But the issue is also causing problems, albeit less existential ones, on the political left.

Eight months after their devastating loss to Donald Trump, Democrats have finally decided to coalesce around a core message to strengthen their position as they head into the 2018 midterms. They are focusing squarely on so-called kitchen table issues: jobs, wages, and the price of everyday needs. They are also approaching these issues through a new, systemic framework: The “Better Deal” agenda that they rolled out on Monday acknowledges that the economy is skewed in favor of big corporations and against workers. Читать дальше...

It’s easy to forget as you’re watching Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, that the film is in full color. The palette is so restricted—muted blue sky and white clouds; the beige of the French beach and the murky gray of the English Channel; the drab brown uniforms and green helmets over the pale-faced soldiers with their somehow perfect haircuts—that it seems parts of the spectrum have been blocked out. Flashes of brighter colors—a Union Jack, a red cross, purple smears of jelly on toast, or the yellow... Читать дальше...