Jiang Rong – Wolf Totem (2004) A Beijing student during the Cultural Revolution goes native among the nomads of Inner Mongolia, and learns to respect their love/hate-relationship with the wolf ...
William Easterly – The Elusive Quest for Growth None of the methods development agencies tried for creating economic growth countries actually worked. Not investment, not education, not populat...
Karnavalnaya Noch (1956, USSR, Ryazanov) I had no idea that in the Soviet Union in 1956 you could make a musical about how the spirit of youth will triumph over the habits of old, stupid men still st...
The Bad Seed (1956, USA) And then gradually you begin to suspect that your daughter has no soul. Watched it all. It’s the movie birth of the psychopatic child – and the child-like psychop...
Teahouse of the August Moon (1956, USA) American imperial administrators arrive to bring the light of civilization to Marlon Brando and the other barbarian natives of Okinawa. Watched it all. This is...
Gary Klein – Sources of Power – How People Make Decisions (1999) Expertise can be an illusion, but in fields where people run into similar situations repeatedly, and receive feedback on t...
X: The Unknown (1956, UK) These early Hammer sci-fi horrors are basically prototypes for Doctor Who: Level-headed and massively ambitious all at the same time. And this one features the earliest plau...
Ilya Muromets (1956, USSR) The high budget Soviet movies of the 40s and 50s often feel like they were made in an alternate universe where the ambition that in Hollywood was channeled through greed, i...
Barbara Victor – Army of Roses (2004) Terrorism is hard, but becomes easier when there’s a social context that encourages and aids it, such as the one Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad perfe...
I romanen Perdido Street Station av China Miéville hjemsøkes gatene av et monster som fanger sitt bytte ved å folde ut vinger med et hypnotiserende mønster ingen er i stand til å fjerne blikket sitt ...
Å diskutere alt åpent, uten å sensurere eller mobbe meningsmotstandere, er som regel bedre enn å eskalere motsetningene. De som vil ty til sosialt press eller forbud må forstå kostnaden og risikoen. ...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, USA) The tiredest cliché about 1950s sci-fi is that it was all Really About Fear of Communism, because, you know, people had this irrational belief that the Sovi...
Har deltatt i nettmøte hos NRK: Stærk jobber til daglig i IT-bransjen som programmerer, og har i flere år skrevet om en rekke temaer i blogginnlegg, aviskronikker og artikler. – Jeg startet en blogg ...
Solid Gold Cadillac (1956, USA) Miss Smith goes to Manhattan, and teaches the fat cats about corporate ethics and the rights of the Small Shareholder. Watched it all. Our Mr Sun (1956, USA, Capra) A ...
Star in the Dust (1956, USA) This isn’t very good, but for some reason it feels more like a Western than most of the other not very good Westerns so far. Maybe it’s the closeups, the (adm...
Terrorangrepet 22. juli er ikke over, det fortsetter i dag i Oslo tingrett. Anders Behring Breivik kaller rettssaken for «fase 3» av operasjonen sin. Det er nå han skal han utdype sitt budskap til de...
Martin Booth – The Dragon Syndicates - The global phenomenon of the Triads (2001) The Triads are secret societies that once served useful functions in Chinese society, but they were always clos...
The best movies of 1955, or at least those that had an opening that was interesting enough for me not to immediately hit the fast-forward button. I’ve collected the best scene from each movie, ...
The Prisoner (1955, UK) A psychological interrogation movie in the tradition of Nineteen Eighty-four, the Babylon 5 episode Intersections in Real Time, and – most of all – the 1960s TV se...
Rome and Juliet (1955, USSR) I think I get the purpose of ballet now: It’s a way to have have both story and music, without having it interrupted by singing. The dancing is just something to ke...
Bjørn Vassnes – Sokrates & Sjøpungen (2011) It’s ironic how little actual knowledge there is to find in this book about how nobody in Norway values knowledge any more. It’s as i...
Jeg skriver om Breivik, galskap og ekstremisme i Dagbladet i dag: Mange tror at spørsmålet om Anders Behring Breivik er psykotisk, og dermed utilregnelig, er nøkkelen vi trenger for å forstå terroran...
The Last Frontier (1955, USA, Mann) Westerns are full of frontiersmen and soldiers, but the ones in this movie are among the first that actually feel like the sort of undisciplined, independent men y...
Dementia / Daughter of Horror (1955, USA) Horror movies lost something when sound was invented, the ability to portray the world as fundamentally evil. This is one of the first movies to recapture t...
Ordet (1955, Denmark, Dreyer) If someone were to make a parody of a brilliant but slow-moving drama about God-fearing Danish farmers, it would be indistinguishable from this, and vice versa, in much ...
Night and Fog / Nuit et brouillard (1955, France, Resnais) The greatest documentary about concentration camps and extermination camps I’ve ever seen. A visual essay that looks back on the horr...
Julie Flin & Alex de Waal – Darfur, A new history of a long war (2009) When the decades-old ethnic conflicts in Darfur, in western Sudan, escalated in the early 00s, ethnically African grou...
William J. Knaus – The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety (2008) I’m not an anxious person, with a few exceptions, but I used to be. I bugfixed myself by accidentally combining a s...
Ny Minerva-spalte, om nyheter som en form for såpeopera, og andre forenklende fortellinger: Når nordmenn sier “jeg bryr meg om urettferdigheten i verden”, så mener vi egentlig: “Fortell meg en spenne...
Blackboard Jungle (1955, USA) 50s cultural history was a bit unclear to me before I started this marathon, so I was surprised to learn that it’s not until 1955 that you get movies that feature ...
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