American Consequences

John Podhoretz

April 2018

Wall Street on the Big Screen

Finance is the great neglected subject of American art. Among the enduring American writers, only Theodore Dreiser took up the serious study of the “Lord of Finance” as a central figure in the national story. His extraordinary novels The Financier...

February 2018

The Not-So-Great Wall

How China Hasn’t Taken Over Pop Culture Yet By John Podhoretz American moviegoers scratched their heads in early 2017 when a trailer appeared out of nowhere for an epic movie about rival warlords in medieval China. It was big and vast, with special...

January 2018

Invasion of the CGI

There might have been a moment of late when you sat in a movie theater struggling to remain awake as some entirely convincing space battle between two starships a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away took place in front of you. (It was so...