Which Fyre Festival documentary is most worth watching?
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Fyre Fraud and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened reviewed
Dominic Green
Tuesday
Sunday
A tale of a dead woman walking
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Destroyer reviewed
Tuesday
My week: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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As told to Dominic Green
Monday
Moral preening and identity politics were the big winners at the Golden Globes
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The answer to the race conundrum was to split the difference between the minorities, and give most of the awards to white actors
Sunday
Feeling lucky, pops?
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The Mule reviewed
Friday
The Green Room, Spectator USA’s Life & Arts podcast: Anarchy and Empire with Robert Kaplan
This week, I’m casting the pod with author and foreign policy analyst Robert Kaplan. At the end of the Cold War, the United States was both the most powerful country in history and without a challenger. Since them, however, America’s reach in foreign policy has consistently exceeded the grasp of its bureaucrats and elected politicians.
Wednesday
The beginning is nigh
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20 predictions for 2019
Sunday
The critics are wrong about Holmes & Watson
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Holmes & Watson reviewed
Friday
Amos Oz, a giant of Israeli literature and politics
In Western democracies, literature no longer matters to politics. Once, literature and politics could co-exist on the same typewriter or in the same person: George Orwell in Britain, André Malraux in France. But that was a long time ago. Still, the powers of politics remain linguistic, whether bureaucratic or rhetorical: the war criminal at his
Thursday
The power behind the power behind the power
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Vice reviewed
Wednesday
Trump’s Mideast carve-up
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Christmas came early for Turkey
Tuesday
Boycott Christmas!
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Don’t be fooled by the Zionist narrative!
Wednesday
Should George Soros be Person of the Year?
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It depends on which year
Tuesday
The Green Room podcast: Auctions, sculptures, and horse flesh - the best art exhibitions in 2018
This week, I’m casting the pod with a congeries of crack art critics from The New Criterion: James Panero, Benjamin Riley and Andrew Shea. In the background, instead of sleigh bells and carol singers, you can dimly hear the smashing of plates and the roar of laughter as The New Criterion’s Christmas party gets under
Sunday
Hail Mary
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Mary Queen of Scots reviewed
Thursday
The confusion of the Confucians
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Kissinger is right about Trump, of course
Tuesday
The Green Room, Spectator USA’s Life & Arts podcast: The Greek way of death
As the old year dies, our thoughts turn to what happens next. What better time, then, to cast a seasonally morbid, deeply philosophical, and curiously uplifting pod with David Saunders of the J. Paul Getty Museum in California? The Getty Villa’s new exhibition, Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife is all about ideas of what happened next
Sunday
Is Roger really what Ailes the American republic?
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Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes reviewed
Friday
Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks: Our final interview
RIP Pete Shelley. I would suggest three minutes silence, but Buzzcocks would have said it all in 2 minutes and 59 seconds. When I spoke to Shelley a few days ago for my podcast ‘The Green Room’, he was in good spirits, looking forward to another busy year, and especially looking forward to performing the
Thursday
The height of hypocrisy: why on earth is Bohemian Rhapsody up for a Golden Globe?
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It’s a mediocre vehicle that promotes Queen’s back catalog and some contemporary virtues
