Strangest. Aesthetic. Stalinism. Ever.
By Shorter some Pajamas Media hack: I have recently discovered that (Pakula’s) All the President’s Men, Saturday Night Fever, and Roots were works of fiction. Obviously, this was a conspiracy to help liberals, because without these pictures everybody would have realized that Nixon wasn’t a crook and slavery wasn’t all that bad, and for very logical and compelling reasons I’ll get into later overestimating the number of Italian-American men from Brooklyn who went to discos in the 70s was crucial to the great progressive revival of the 80s.