The new film about the exposure of Weinstein keeps its focus on the poster villain for #MeToo – but misses a chance to expose the “girl bosses” who protected …
Author: Liza Featherstone
Hillary Clinton’s TV Show ‘Gutsy’ Is Infantilising and Cutesy
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s new series showcases courageous women from various fields. But the show’s narrow lens suggests approval of women who show spunk, but not those who challenge …
Rejecting Russian Culture Only Plays Into Putin’s Hands
Opera houses and literature departments have dropped works by Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky. Yuri Gagarin’s name has been erased by a space exploration nonprofit.
Who Deserves Wealth? Moral Ambiguity and the Anna Delvey Story
No one deserves riches, and yet we all do. This moral puzzle is key to our love for Anna Delvey, the con artist and 'fake German heiress' who is …
Wordle: Capitalism Hates Collective Fun
Human beings are wired for collective, public fun – the kind that a game like Wordle provides. But capitalism, with its relentless drive to privatise, insists instead that entertainments …
We Need More Radical Climate Fiction
Literature has seen an uptick in 'cli-fi,' fiction about possible climate dystopias and utopias. But too much of that climate-change-related fiction lacks any kind of radical political imagination.