Worker
Story Stream
Going Soft March 21, 2025
I am sitting in a bland conference room in Midtown Manhattan with twenty-nine so-called business professionals, and one of our instructors, Sharon, has just told us to imagine a huge rectangular brass nameplate, as if walking us through a guided medi...
'Mickey 17' Is Bong Joon-ho's Most American Movie Yet March 11, 2025
This story contains mild spoilers for Mickey 17.When the indie distributor Neon recently won their second Best Picture Oscar with Anora, it also marked the fifth anniversary of their first win: for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, a South Korean thriller abo...
DOGE Gets Serious March 05, 2025
I have argued for over a decade that America has a fourth, largely unaccountable branch of government in the administrative state. My 2012 book, Stealing You Blind, describes how federal bureaucrats were making bank while ruining people’s lives and c...
Anora is a Movie about Marriage March 03, 2025
You could make the case that Anora, Sean Baker’s critically-acclaimed anti-Cinderella story, is a movie about exploitation. The protagonist, after all, is a Brighton Beach sex worker....
