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Taking the ‘Vineland’ express to ‘One Battle After Another’

Political Theater, Episode 387

The movie “One Battle After Another” expands on issues from the novel it is based on, Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland.” Jason Dick discusses the book with Pynchon scholar Sean Carswell on the latest Political Theater podcast. (Jason Dick/CQ Roll Call)
The movie “One Battle After Another” expands on issues from the novel it is based on, Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland.” Jason Dick discusses the book with Pynchon scholar Sean Carswell on the latest Political Theater podcast. (Jason Dick/CQ Roll Call)

Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss Thomas Pynchon’s novel “Vineland,” how it leads to Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie “One Battle After Another,” the conversation those two works have about American culture and politics, as well as the 1960s left, the Nixonian right, Reaganism, the drug war, Trumpism and, for good measure, Emerson’s concept of the level of divine justice.

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