During the pandemic, you may have been watching Schitt’s Creek. Its characters inspired this month’s pandemic puzzle, which is about how to figure out the ideal balance between feeling like you need a lot to be happy, and feeling like you need very little.
For me—as for the good people at the Oscars—Parasite was far and away the best film of 2019. Critics, however, are eagerly denouncing it as a failure, a capitulation, a “conservative” film, indeed a movie full of “contempt” for the working class. What is going on?
有许多东西是不应该以任何价格出售的——人是其中最主要的。你不能合法地卖掉你本来就不拥有的东西。但有很多东西我们确实拥有它们的买卖在某种程度上被认为是令人憎恶的，因此被禁止。
How much of today’s treasure is destined to be tomorrow’s trash? Are growing piles of trash the price we pay for progress? Or do our trashy habits amount to ecological terrorism? These are the questions we're thinking about in this week's show.
最近出版的《第三世界季刊》将乔姆斯基标榜为编辑委员会成员，但由于编辑们受到死亡威胁，该杂志的编辑们也撤回了布鲁斯·吉利的《殖民主义的理由》。但是杂志撤回这篇文章是正确的吗?