Would you rather pay more to get the same amount of food, or pay the same as before, and get less? Inflation gives you the opportunity to consider such existential questions…
What We Didn’t Know Back Then
One of the greatest films I’ve ever seen was Zero Dark Thirty (2012). It deserved the countless award nominations it garnered, including five Academy Awards. It’s an espionage thriller like few others. No doubt the experience is heightened for the viewer by knowing that this stuff actually happened, at least most of it.
The film tells the story of the CIA’s decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, culminating in the Navy Seal mission that killed him. That event feels like ancient history for many people. It was, after all, over a decade ago. So much has changed in the way we think about terrorism, particularly the shape of Islamic extremism. We’re also a forgetful society, living from news cycle to news cycle. An unfortunate side-effect of this amnesia is that we not only forget pivotal …
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