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Hollywood’s new silent era

Via Bari Weiss, an insight into the American film industry’s new culture of self-censorship:

“Everyone has gone so underground with their true feelings about things,” said Mike White, the writer and director behind the hit HBO comedy-drama “The White Lotus.” “If you voice things in a certain way it can really have negative repercussions for you…

Timur Kuran’s classic on preference falsification Private Truths, Public Lies remains the most important unread book of our times.

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