Sean's interests include foreign policy, with a particular emphasis on the post-Soviet space, as well as culture and the arts. He also co-produces The American Interest Podcast and leads the TAI / Stanford in Washington Film Series.
More than 30 years later, Spike Lee’s classic resonates for its honest attention to interracial tensions, and its sad observation of how legitimate grievances can spiral out of control.
In a new biography, David Lowe shows how Morris Abram, a leading light of the early civil rights movement, fell out of favor—and what his complex legacy might teach us today.
As Freedom House unveils its annual report on global freedom, democracy scholar Arch Puddington discusses growing threats to minority rights, the disappointment of India, and his own career advancing democracy and human rights.
Published: Feb 04, 2020
Composite by Danielle Desjardins (clockwise from top left: The Irishman, Parasite, A Hidden Life)
A leading Russian documentarian reflects on the events that brought Putin to power, in a new film that is part personal repentance and part cautionary tale.
Orson Welles’s final film, newly completed after four decades in limbo, is a fascinating paradox: a deeply personal but radically collaborative project, which speaks as much to our time as to his.
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