Errol Morris
Varieties of Humbug
My enduring fascination with The Wizard of Oz
The View from Here
A qualified defense of other people
What Is Love?
Whether on Hitler’s evil, Shakespeare’s genius, or the nature of love, Ron Rosenbaum resists the lure of easy answers
No News Is Bad News
Can political documentaries effect change? Benjamin Netanyahu seems to think so
The Postmodernist and the Drowning Man
For Janet Malcolm, there was no ultimate truth—only endless interpretation. Except when her own credibility was on the line
It’s Complicated
A new film re-examines Tolstoy’s marriage—a subject that has inspired more than a century of commentary, from dueling novellas to literary mock trials
Weird Science
Are the people in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal knowing participants—or guinea pigs in a mad behavioral experiment?
The View from Here
Is Trump crazy like a fox—or just plain crazy? The director of the documentary series Unprecedented thinks the latter
The View from Here
Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?
Meta-Meat
Nothing says “Continental” cuisine like hot-dog lasagna
Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa?
(And was the frozen salmon a red herring?)
Who Really Killed Jimmy Hoffa?
(And was the frozen salmon a red herring?)
Why Talk to a Pariah?
I’ve never met one I didn’t like and I just wanted to understand
