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The Principal-Agent Problem in Succession
An owner tries to get subordinates to act in the owner's interest, and discovers the ordinary problem of not being able to see what they[…]
Homer Simpson Says Communism Works in Theory
Homer offers the most common thing anyone says about communism - that it works in theory - and the joke is that he has no[…]
Religious Reformation in Game of Thrones
A religious movement that the crown thought it could use becomes a political actor in its own right, with its own courts, its own armed[…]
Fidel Castro on The Simpsons Calls Communism Mumbo Jumbo
A cartoon Castro, in private, dismisses the ideology his state is built on. Fourteen seconds, and entirely about the gap between official doctrine and the[…]
Phillip from The Americans Talks Up the USA versus the Soviet Union
A Soviet intelligence officer living undercover in the United States says, briefly and almost unwillingly, that life is better here. Twenty-eight seconds, and the whole[…]
Communism in The Hunger Games
Panem's districts each produce one thing and see almost none of it. The Capitol consumes what the districts make, and the arrangement is presented as[…]
Squashing Protests in The Hunger Games
Peacekeepers move in on a crowd in District 11 after a gesture of solidarity at the Games. The response is immediate, public and disproportionate -[…]
Debating Whether to Run the Pentagon Papers in The Post
The editors and publisher of the Washington Post debate whether to run the Pentagon Papers story under threat of indictment - a clip on prior[…]