What is it about Hitler, and what is it about us?
The man was one of the universe’s most evil, deadliest, least-redeemable people–killed six million, terrorized the world–and yet arguably from the moment we discovered him, he became a joke.
How is that possible? How did we do that to Hitler–so successfully, starting way before we had [...]

Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin’s silent stand against sound

Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp character has arguably never been more hilariously pathetic than he is in the 1936 masterpiece, Modern Times. Here the shabby everyman finds himself getting literally ground up in the gears of the industrial age: He suffers a nervous breakdown, gets mixed up in labor [...]