Readings

Ron Mann on the Making of Comic Book Confidential

The filmmaker behind the seminal documentary, which just celebrated its 25th anniversary, talks to Hazlitt about how the project came together, underground comics in Reagan-era America, and a memorable call to Mad magazine.

Fragments on Quebec’s Charter of Values

There’s no doubt that Quebec’s proposed Charter of Values is racist. What’s interesting about it, however, is how neatly it has summed up the fears, anxieties, and prejudices of a time and place.

Extremely Loud and Unbelievably Small

Since men have flown aircraft, men have dropped bombs—and bombing has gotten better, say the architects of war, relative to the last war. So have our justifications.