Aaron Bady

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Aaron Bady

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1 month ago | prospect.org | Aaron Bady

This article appears in the April 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Around the time in the 19th century when Kier Eagan was founding Lumon Industries—in the world of Apple TV+’s Severance—Karl Marx was, in our world, arguing that when people go to work, they cease to be themselves. Does the worker “who for twelve hours weaves, spins, drills, turns, builds, shovels, breaks stones, carries loads, etc.

Mar 15, 2024 | slate.com | Aaron Bady

Skip to the content Movies I have questions about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. If the Fremen have lasers, why don’t they just shoot the sand harvesters and run away? Why don’t they use their sandworms until the last battle? Wouldn’t it make more sense to fight the other great houses on Arrakis itself, where they have sandworms, rather than board ships off-world to go off to war?

Mar 15, 2024 | yahoo.com | Aaron Bady

I have questions about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. If the Fremen have lasers, why don’t they just shoot the sand harvesters and run away? Why don’t they use their sandworms until the last battle? Wouldn’t it make more sense to fight the other great houses on Arrakis itself, where they have sandworms, rather than board ships off-world to go off to war? If Paul (Timothée Chalamet) has to invade the galaxy at the end, why bother marrying the daughter of the emperor he just deposed?

Sep 22, 2023 | slate.com | Aaron Bady

Television Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, HBO’s boisterous drama about the Los Angeles Lakers’ Showtime era in the ’80s, was prematurely killed on Sunday, a cancellation so ignominious that it’s hard not to feel bad for the people that made it.