Dennis Hopper, Reactionary Radical

Writes Bill Kauffman, in Look Homeward, America, of Hopper’s signature film: I don’t really have to convince you that Easy Rider is a reactionary picture, do I? The only characters depicted as unqualifiably virtuous are the homesteading family, living on their own acreage, raising their own food, teaching their young. If they’re not Treichlers then [...]

Civil Rights, Political Wrongs

There’s a magic box, and every time this wondrous device is used by a well-meaning individual it gives an unemployed American a job or puts a roof over a homeless citizen’s head. The only problem is, every time it’s used the box also causes someone on the other side of the earth to drop dead. [...]