NR Daily: Charles Burnett Honored for Black Misery

Filmmaker Charles Burnett was awarded a career-achievement Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this past weekend. Who's Burnett? That fair question is part of the Oscars' ongoing problem, but it's also part of film culture's ongoing political crisis. Burnett is an honorable filmmaker whose movies fill the gap left by the racial exclusion of Hollywood studios that refuse to depict black American lives to any regular, authentic, or imaginative degree. But honoring him does not redeem the Academy's current lack of popularity or relevance ...

November 15 2017

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Charles Burnett Honored for Black Misery Armond White Filmmaker Charles Burnett was awarded a career-achievement Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this past weekend. Who's Burnett? That fair question is part of the Oscars' ongoing problem, but it's also part of film culture's ongoing political crisis. Burnett is an honorable filmmaker whose movies... READ MORE Social Conservatives, Raise the Ethical Standard Michael Brendan Dougherty There's no getting around it. A great number of conservatives and populists feel tempted to support Roy Moore in his Senate bid, despite the increasingly credible accusations of his acting like... Joe Biden's Muddled Response to the Texas Shooting Was Unintentionally Revealing David French The Sutherland Springs, Texas, shooting presents a serious problem for those who claim that the government offers the answer for gun violence. After all, the government failed at every turn, and... ADVERTISEMENT The Uses of Disgrace Mona Charen In 1983, two congressmen, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, were censured by the House. Both had admitted to having affairs with 17-year-old pages. The Republican, Daniel Crane,... L'Affaire Moore, &c. Jay Nordlinger If you're Roy Moore'd out, I don't blame you. But I'd like to make a few Moore points nonetheless. (I didn't mean that as a pun, I really didn't.) From what he has said over the years, Moore... The Senate GOP's Corporate-Tax-Cut Delay: A Recipe for Recession Deroy Murdock Senate Republicans have a secret political death wish. They want to lose their majority and return to the far lighter burden and far broader vacation options available to that body's minority... In Medicine, the Science Has Stopped Working Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry Editor's Note: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, a conservative writer and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is writing a series of columns on uncomfortable truths about health care in... ADVERTISEMENT Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America John Earl Haynes,‎ Harvey Klehr,‎ & Alexander Vassiliev "This magisterial book transcends the old debates and paradigms, and provides the most complete and thorough account of what Soviet espionage agents actually did in the United States." - Ronald Radosh, The Weekly Standard LEARN MORE Top Shots Navy's Show of Force ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 215 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.