What 'Barbenheimer' Tells Us About Us
"Barbie," "Oppenheimer," and why we shouldn't avert our eyes from Hiroshima.
TOKYO — America’s pathologies are, in my experience, more apparent (though no less troubling) from afar. The simultaneous release of the films “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” resulting in the distasteful but hardly surprising “Barbenheimer” meme is a case in point: America’s twi…
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