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Political Theater: Taking the ‘Vineland’ express to ‘One Battle After Another’

Political Theater: Taking the ‘Vineland’ express to ‘One Battle After Another’

Update: 2025-10-31
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Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss how Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland” led to Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie “One Battle After Another,” the conversation those two works have about American culture and politics, as well as the 1960s left, the Nixonian right, Reaganism, the drug war, Trumpism and, for good measure, Emerson's concept of the level of divine justice.

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Political Theater: Taking the ‘Vineland’ express to ‘One Battle After Another’

Political Theater: Taking the ‘Vineland’ express to ‘One Battle After Another’

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