Right-wing politics
fromThe Atlantic
3 days agoPete Hegseth's Shameless Vice Signaling
Vice signaling is a tactic used by some politicians to gain attention and showcase controversial views, often through offensive remarks.
Not much happens in "Art": three bourgeois friends disagree on a matter of taste, and, instead of talking normally about it over a drink, they make increasingly savage personal attacks whenever they meet. Reza, a Parisian playwright and novelist, won a Tony for "Art" in 1998 and another for her even sluggier slugfest, "God of Carnage," in 2009. In these influential insult comedies, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, Reza satirizes the vapidity and pettiness of the upper-middle class;