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Did the Confederacy Ever End?
On July 30, 2017, April Reign posted a message onto Twitter that would reverberate throughout the night. She created a hashtag called #NoConfederate in response to HBO’s Game of Thrones creators plans to create a show called Confederate where the Confederacy triumphed in the American Civil War. Overnight, the hashtag became the second most popular…
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The Wire’s Angry Dissent
BY GABRIEL RUBIN “It’s good for froth,” David Simon says of the internet. But froth also spills from television sets, with hundreds of shows repackaging a successful formula of cheap laughs, sex, violence, and punctuating music. Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire (among other masterpieces), has eschewed not only conventional television writing wisdom but media…
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