The Long Hangover of the Roaring Eighties
Jonathan Kaufman evaluates whether the 1980s inaugurated a glorious national renewal or a “greed is good” culture that ended in collapse.
By TOM DEIGNAN
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Tom Deignan is an author and journalist who writes about religion for National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal magazine, and elsewhere. He teaches at CUNY and is working on a book about religion in the 1920s.
Jonathan Kaufman evaluates whether the 1980s inaugurated a glorious national renewal or a “greed is good” culture that ended in collapse.
By TOM DEIGNAN
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The Vice President appears to enjoy the Netflix rom-com for the way it dramatizes the costs and benefits of boundless freedom of choice.
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A new book revisits a downtown New York tragedy, whose issues persist in the present.
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George Sosnak’s baseball portraits are so intricate that the Westmoreland Museum of American Art provides magnifying glasses so visitors can appreciate their extraordinary detail.
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‘Monsters of God’ and ‘The Shards’ both explore the fallout of outlandish Americans acting on their baser instincts.
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Richard Russo once again proves novelists don’t have to span the globe, or interrogate pernicious systems, to produce powerful and rich fiction.
By TOM DEIGNAN
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Today’s resurgent socialism echoes the fervor that greeted a Russian revolutionary’s arrival at New York more than a century ago.
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‘Collective Witness,’ an exhibition at the New York Society Library, discloses the Founding Fathers’ reading habits.
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Attempting to bridge the spiritual and political, the Vice President’s book is less compelling than “Hillbilly Elegy,” although it outlines his religious conviction.
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While the film reels for “International Eucharistic Congress” have been mislaid, its depiction of a landmark Catholic event set the template for subsequent documentaries.
By TOM DEIGNAN
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