I endorse every word of this fantastic piece from David Polansky. Bravo. wisdomofcrowds.live/p/pundit-dont-…

“I had never seen a Holocaust film that produced such an effect in me as a viewer.” Noah Millman reviews “The Zone of Interest,” a very different kind of horror movie: modernagejournal.com/seeing-through…

“I went to the Wharton School of Finance. The Wharton School of Finance was a friend of mine. Ma’am, you are no Wharton School of Finance.”

“The Zone of Interest” is a Holocaust horror film that forced Noah Millman (Noah Millman) to reflect on the Israel-Gaza conflict more deeply. modernagejournal.com/seeing-through…

“The Brutalist” was “both small-scaled and small-souled,” writes Noah Millman: modernagejournal.com/how-the-brutal…

And here I thought the film about a megastar who's a chimpanzee was a biopic about *Robin* Williams . . .

This Noah Millman essay gets at the key distinction between what you might call a unitary-executive revolution and a Caesarist one; the first revolution has much better odds in court than the second. nytimes.com/2025/02/10/opi…

“The politesse of the ideology of diversity can thus perversely make us more provincial rather than more genuinely cosmopolitan.” Noah Millman on art as a cultural mirror: modernagejournal.com/encounters-wit…

“Whether you newly appreciate your own difference or instead find yourself better reflected in a foreign glass than ever you saw yourself at home, you’ll have had an experience you could only have had by bringing your unfettered self to the table.” Our film critic

.Noah Millman on robots on film and stage. modernagejournal.com/we-are-the-rob…

This is feeling less and less like the Iraq War and more and more like Operation Barbarossa