Official image from ‘Sea Countrymen’ courtesy of The Criterion Collection. What would we lose if we forgot the past? Italian filmmaker Vittorio de Seta is best known for the short-form documentaries ...

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This post is nothing fancy or profound; I just want to put some emotive meat on Karl Marx’s useful, perhaps essential, yet always slightly skeletal, concept of alienation. The necessity of working for ...

Parental alienation has become the nuclear weapon of custody battles. Accuse your ex of alienating your children, and you might win full custody. Get caught actually alienating, and you could lose ...