In the mid-1990s, French filmmaker Claude Berri warned that without protection from the products of the American media, “European culture is finished.” He had plenty of pessimistic company. French Culture Minister Jack Lang spoke of America’s irrepressible “cultural imperialism.” The popularity of a work like Jurassic Park was identified as a “threat” to others’ “national […]
Charles Paul Freund
Charles Paul Freund is a senior editor for Reason magazine.
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Paranoid pop
“Chechnya! Afghanistan! Palestine! Southern Lebanon! The Golan Heights! And now Iraq, too? And now Iraq, too? It’s too much for people. Shame on you! Enough, enough, enough!” Are those angry words from a political speech or a TV interview? Are they perhaps from an impassioned op-ed piece criticizing U.S. foreign policy? In fact, they’re the […]
