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Matt Damon as Odysseus walking over a rocky shoreline in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Strips Away the Epic’s Complexity

The new adaptation focuses on Nolan’s pet themes of self-deception, “the noble lie,” and superheroes whose moral virtue makes them lonely and sad.

Illustration of the book How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

Does Soccer Still Explain the World?

Franklin Foer’s bestselling 2004 book helped sell soccer to Americans thanks in part to a defense of globalization.

The Eco-Sabotage Group That Went Up In Smoke

The Two Elk Lodge in Vail, Colorado, was reconstructed after the Earth Liberation Front set fire to the property in 1998.

The Eco-Sabotage Group That Went Up In Smoke

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An episodic image from the TV show "Lord of The Flies" starring Noah Flemyng as Sam, Cassius Flemyng as Eric, and David McKenna as Piggy"

Surviving With Little House on the Prairie and Lord of the Flies

Both shows tell the truth about what it means to grow up in an often inhospitable world.

An illustration with a split color field to represent double lives of a family, parents with two young children. The mother is Weather Underground activist Bernardine Dohrn and she is restrained by a police officer on the left and half her contorted face and body is split by the color field and composition. On the right she has a docile expression and she and her husband are Bill Ayers hold their baby and young sibling, one of these represents the author.

The Boy Who Grew Up on the Run From the FBI

Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s radical parents were committed to fighting injustice. But what did they owe their young son?