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Books and the Arts   Arts and Entertainment Books and Ideas
News and Features  Farai Chideya, Christopher Hitchens, Barney
Frank, Susan Brownmiller, Alexander Cockburn, Katha Pollitt,
Slavoj Zizek and Arthur Danto on their favorite screen stars.
Cinematic activism is enjoying a comeback.  Hitler's filmmaker
is Foster's fixation.  Why The Sopranos is therapeutic TV.  The
history which bears and determines us has the form of a war
rather than that of a language: relations of power, not
relations of meaning.           --Michel Foucault,
Power/Knowledge  Michel Foucault would have been fascinated by
late-twentieth-century presidential campaigns.           --Lynne
Cheney, Telling the Truth  Since the late 1980s, when they
discovered with horror certain French-derived theories of social
science and literary analysis that long before then had taken
root among left-leaning academics in the United States--
essentially replacing Marxist dialectics as wea