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Nicholas Buccola’s ‘The Fire Is Upon Us’ Is Obscured by the Smoke
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Nicholas Buccola’s ‘The Fire Is Upon Us’ Is Obscured by the Smoke

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 / 10 September 2020

Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is Upon US is, at times, marred by glibness, impatience, and ahistorical tendencies that suggest, to an extent, it is also a reflective of the deteriorating conditions that mark our public discourse in 2020.

‘Best of Enemies’ Shows Brilliant People Behaving Badly
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‘Best of Enemies’ Shows Brilliant People Behaving Badly

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 / 5 October 2015
The film makes the case that these television debates up, entertaining and increasingly noisy, were “a harbinger of an unhappy future". That is, the future where we now live.
The Media Circus Begins in ‘Best of Enemies’
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The Media Circus Begins in ‘Best of Enemies’

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 / 31 July 2015
This gripping documentary about the invective-slinging 1968 William F. Buckley-Gore Vidal debates isn’t a celebration of intellectual combat, it’s an original-sin tale for where TV news went wrong.