Chess isn’t just a game, it’s also a handy metaphor—for braininess, for power, for geopolitical strategy.
Television
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Thank you, Alex Trebek. You were a gentleman and a scholar.
Trebek guided us through what remains of an older, genteel culture that prized intellectual achievement.
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‘The Good Lord Bird’ Review: Ethan Hawke’s John Brown is a (heavily armed) holy fool
‘The Good Lord Bird’ runs straight to the heart of America’s most toxic contradictions.
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Netflix’s ‘Selling Sunset’ basks in opulence. You should feel guilty watching it.
“Selling Sunset” paints an unapologetic portrait of our brutal capitalist culture.
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Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ confronts the dark side of our love of superhero stories
‘The Boys’ gleefully satirizes every aspect of superhero movies by showing how corrupt all-powerful beings would be if they existed in the real world.
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Why ‘Schitt’s Creek’ is the show we need in 2020
Every episode of “Schitt’s Creek” comes with guaranteed fits of laughter as the Roses learn what it means to embrace their own brand of “normal” in a strangely normal town.
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Here’s what the ‘America’ staff watched in quarantine. You should too.
When off-the-clock, chances are we’re enjoying a really good show.
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HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ delivers a Sci-Fi depiction of being Black in America
Placing three Black characters at the center of a new TV series yields fresh, unexpected turns.
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Nicholas Black Elk and the quest for justice
This documentary can be considered one more piece of the recent American narrative pushing us continually to wake up to our past injustices.
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Netflix’s ‘The Midnight Gospel’ on the trap of spiritual materialism
I was caught off guard by the show’s artistic experimentation, nuanced spiritual message and deeply moving season finale.