Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

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Hail maestro Napoleon Oppenheimer!

Hail maestro Napoleon Oppenheimer!

Fallacy, phallocracy and the 14th amendment

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Dec 30, 2023
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Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Jacques Louis David, 1801. Photo Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA, via Shutterstock

I wonder what it means, this fashion for huge movie biopics about the lives (or aspects of the lives) of monstrous men? First we had Oppenheimer, then came Napoleon and finally the film about Leonard Bernstein - Maestro - which I watched this week.

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