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From André Gide to Michel Foucault, predatory behavior has frequently hijacked calls for gay rights to justify abuse.

Mar 30, 2021

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A famous quotation turns out to be a Frankenstein's monster of sewn together parts.

Mar 8

The morally bankrupt mirror of "Rebel without a Cause" exposes the bleakness of 1950s attitudes toward sex and gender and highlights what the movie did…

Feb 22

Berlin's annual film festival celebrates "Rebel without a Cause," with one notable and inexplicable exception.

Feb 14

Exploring the origins of the claim James Dean was sexually abused by a minister.

Dec 14, 2022

A prose adaptation of "Rebel without a Cause" offers insight into the many ways Warner Bros. misunderstood their own film.

Dec 6, 2022

How a Netflix series about the hunt for the lost city of Atlantis became yet another front in the culture war—and the latest example of elite…

Dec 6, 2022

The strange story of how a bad book pushed James Dean back into the posthumous closet.

Nov 7, 2022

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