Asian Boss - We Interviewed A Former Elite North Korean Spy
"Chul-eun Lee is a former high-ranking North Korean government official who defected to South Korea in 2016. He swam 6km from North to South Korea and started a new life. We asked him about his journey, his former job with the North Korean government, and the differences he sees between North and South Korea."
The Museum at FIT - Tim Gunn in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele
"Tim Gunn in conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele at The Museum at FIT's 19th fashion symposium, Fashion and Physique, held on Friday, February 23, 2018."
We are offered a glowing neon world with video-interface pay-phones, fantastical genetic engineering, and flying cars—as well as a dreary, paranoid, hard-boiled detective story. Even Vangelis’ electronic drones dip into the smoking-room of melancholic sax riffs. Both genres are true at once and it works. There’s even an argument to be made that Blade Runner has elements of horror. Ditch Deckard, our world-weary film noir agent, and the film becomes a Frankenstein-like tale of a hubristic scientist whose creations have come back to haunt him.
"The only reason to torture Tolkien’s work like this is not to understand it more deeply but to tear it down. And why would modern scholars want to do that? Because everything that Tolkien was, and everything he wrote, is an affront to the modern secular scholar’s understanding of the world, reality, and the meaning and purpose of life."
John Hasnan - The Obviousness of Anarchy: The Question
"This is the first part of The Obviousness of Anarchy by John Hasnas, which was originally published as Chapter 8 of the book 'Anarchism / Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?', a collection of essays compiled by Roderick Long and Tibor Machan."
"Tokyo, the metropolis of sound, movement and culture. We experience the city through interviews with the world known photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, the game designer Shono, the musician Mayuko Hino and others. The participants give their view on Robotics, shintoism, 'love hotels' and a photoclub specialized in images on mount Fuji."
Michael Malice - 70 Years of Sorrow: Inside History’s Most Brutal Social Experiment
"North Korea has been something of a mystery to outside observers. But author Michael Malice -- author of Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il -- takes us inside the hermit kingdom to offer us a glimpse of what life is like for a people with no voice and no exit."
