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Posted October 31, 2025 at 10:08am
Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland,” how it leads 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.
Show Notes:
- Immigration, race and ‘One Battle After Another’
- The ‘Vineland’ Guide to Contemporary Rebellion (essay on the novel by Sean Carswell)
- Sean Carswell’s author website
- US says shutdown ended lawmaker ICE facility visit requirement
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