A Tormented Search for Balance
Kissinger, a PBS documentary by Barak Goodman, October 2025 PBS’s three-hour documentary on Henry Kissinger is in most respects admirable and should be viewed by everyone. Kissinger’s long life and exploits are handled briskly but thoroughly; the narrative does not dawdle, dramatic footage and scores of brief interview excerpts keep the story moving, quite coherently […]
Movie Review: “Making the Rubble Bounce”
A House of Dynamite directed by Kathryn Bigelow, available on Netflix Nuclear weapons were at the heart of the Cold War. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union ever sought to attack each other directly because each wanted to avoid triggering a nuclear cataclysm. Instead, they waged a proxy war in the Third World […]
