Kidnapping, rape, guns and handcuffs, The Joy of Sex, blue silk pajamas: the new Errol Morris documentary has it all. Based on the notorious Case of the Manacled Mormon, Tabloid is a delightful film. For fully half the movie you don’t know what to believe
A hundred years from now, will the mass hysteria that gripped the nation in the 1980s and early 1990s regarding child sexual abuse and satanic rituals be remembered in the way the Salem Witch Trials of the 1600s are remembered? The insanity of McCarthyism in the 1950s that ruined countless lives? The craziness of today’s […]
The Maytag plant in Newton, Iowa, closed its doors in October, 2007. On the last day, “some of the Maytagers unlaced their work boots, placed them neatly side by side, and walked to their cars in their socks, their boots symbolizing what they were leaving behind, the part that could not come with them on […]
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