Elizabeth Heffelfinger
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the slippery slope
There are two elements of Reagan’s discussion of socialized medicine that I find fascinating. The first is the opening rhetorical gambit that attempts to remove the debate about health care from any humanitarian or “emotional” context and to reframe it in ... -
Repo Man
I'm fascinated with feature films that are somewhat explicit about economic education. "Wall Street" is, of course, the most obvious example. But there are less accomplished entries as well, like "Fun with Dick and Jane" or &q ... -
Grand Theft Auto
I think this analysis is so useful to thinking about the economies of virtual worlds. Since I have somehow completely missed entire generations of video games (I can play Pong), my reply is only to suggest other kinds of narratives that might prove fruitf ...