Label: Analysis
Girard and Yarvin: two thinkers of Trumpian populism

Girard and Yarvin: two thinkers of Trumpian populism

One reveals how societies unite by naming culprits. The other wants to put an end to violence through power without checks and balances. Everything seems to oppose them, but their ideas form an intellectual foundation for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's conception of the people.
When AI represents humanity's hope

When AI represents humanity's hope

This month, I'm taking the opposite tack from my previous column, which saw artificial intelligence as a danger to cinema, by inviting you to rediscover a series in which AI plays the right role, for once.
Anti-racism that «infantilizes blacks»

Anti-racism that «infantilizes blacks»

African-American linguist John McWhorter sees contemporary anti-racism as a betrayal of Martin Luther King's universalist ideal, and as an ideology that designates whites as oppressors and reduces blacks to incapable beings.