and this was borne out by postwar studies. the effectiveness of bombing campaign was significantly exaggerated
October 31, 2026 at 11:07 AM
and this was borne out by postwar studies. the effectiveness of bombing campaign was significantly exaggerated
Amazon have, with no fanfare, dumped a load more studio-era masterpieces onto Prime Video, including the *restoration* of The Big Parade (1925), the little-seen Dick Powell/Lizabeth Scott noir, Pitfall (1948), and Mankiewicz’s great film about love and postwar mores, A Letter to Three Wives (1947).
November 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Amazon have, with no fanfare, dumped a load more studio-era masterpieces onto Prime Video, including the *restoration* of The Big Parade (1925), the little-seen Dick Powell/Lizabeth Scott noir, Pitfall (1948), and Mankiewicz’s great film about love and postwar mores, A Letter to Three Wives (1947).
Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ follows the writer through a postwar Germany still haunted by genocide. It is a restrained yet devastating masterpiece.
Thomas Mann’s hideous homecoming | David Thomson
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Thomas Mann’s hideous homecoming | David Thomson
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Thomas Mann’s hideous homecoming
Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ follows the writer through a postwar Germany still haunted by genocide. It is a restrained yet devastating masterpiece.
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November 2, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ follows the writer through a postwar Germany still haunted by genocide. It is a restrained yet devastating masterpiece.
Thomas Mann’s hideous homecoming | David Thomson
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/thom...
Thomas Mann’s hideous homecoming | David Thomson
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/thom...
Detroit was still selling warmed-over '42s in the early postwar years.
Ford's first true postwar car wouldn't happen until '49.
carsgoneby.blogspot.com/2025/08/1948...
Ford's first true postwar car wouldn't happen until '49.
carsgoneby.blogspot.com/2025/08/1948...
November 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Detroit was still selling warmed-over '42s in the early postwar years.
Ford's first true postwar car wouldn't happen until '49.
carsgoneby.blogspot.com/2025/08/1948...
Ford's first true postwar car wouldn't happen until '49.
carsgoneby.blogspot.com/2025/08/1948...
Every month is #Noirvember at Noir Crazy Zine but this month sees the 80th Anniversary of THE BLUE DAHLIA, featuring in NCZ issue 004—The Postwar Nightmare. Now available below. #FilmNoir
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Featuring 5 films:
THE BLUE DAHLIA, CROSSFIRE, ACT OF VIOLENCE, SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT, & THE CROOKED WAY.
Watch the trailer below:
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Featuring 5 films:
THE BLUE DAHLIA, CROSSFIRE, ACT OF VIOLENCE, SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT, & THE CROOKED WAY.
Watch the trailer below:
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#FilmNoir #NoirCrazy #Noirvember
November 3, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Every month is #Noirvember at Noir Crazy Zine but this month sees the 80th Anniversary of THE BLUE DAHLIA, featuring in NCZ issue 004—The Postwar Nightmare. Now available below. #FilmNoir
"GODZILLA: MINUS ZERO" (full review pending) - excellent, go see it, try to be unspoiled.
"What if Japan's top historical ugly-cry filmmaker remade postwar Japanese monster movies with ultra-realistic human reactions/consequences?" turns out to be a resilient formula. My eyes bugged out of my skull
"What if Japan's top historical ugly-cry filmmaker remade postwar Japanese monster movies with ultra-realistic human reactions/consequences?" turns out to be a resilient formula. My eyes bugged out of my skull
November 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
"GODZILLA: MINUS ZERO" (full review pending) - excellent, go see it, try to be unspoiled.
"What if Japan's top historical ugly-cry filmmaker remade postwar Japanese monster movies with ultra-realistic human reactions/consequences?" turns out to be a resilient formula. My eyes bugged out of my skull
"What if Japan's top historical ugly-cry filmmaker remade postwar Japanese monster movies with ultra-realistic human reactions/consequences?" turns out to be a resilient formula. My eyes bugged out of my skull
Tbh we had early public choice theory and game theory but tbh the practical problems with democracy weren’t really articulated until the postwar era
October 31, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Tbh we had early public choice theory and game theory but tbh the practical problems with democracy weren’t really articulated until the postwar era
Okay there’s gotta already be like a postwar mechsplo story about a hound abandoned by the empire and left to fend for herself in the wilds and becoming like a local feral cryptid tale, right? I assume that’s been done before?
November 1, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Okay there’s gotta already be like a postwar mechsplo story about a hound abandoned by the empire and left to fend for herself in the wilds and becoming like a local feral cryptid tale, right? I assume that’s been done before?
"From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can."
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What cooperatives for an anticapitalist peace look like | Aeon Essays
From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can
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November 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"From Colombia to Syria, I’ve seen that capitalist logic can’t help to rebuild postwar countries but cooperatives can."
aeon.co/essays/what-...
aeon.co/essays/what-...
This is basically the entire story of postwar America, given public investment in basic research enabled almost every breakthrough over the last 75 years (that big corporations are now charging us for)
And now we're gutting that research funding and expecting *that* to "boost innovation"
And now we're gutting that research funding and expecting *that* to "boost innovation"
when artists said this in 2022 they were laughing at us, so 🤷♀️
(but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)
(but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)
November 1, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This is basically the entire story of postwar America, given public investment in basic research enabled almost every breakthrough over the last 75 years (that big corporations are now charging us for)
And now we're gutting that research funding and expecting *that* to "boost innovation"
And now we're gutting that research funding and expecting *that* to "boost innovation"
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My old neighborhood of smallish postwar bungalows and 2-over-2s had to close the streets on Halloween because the place was sidewalk to sidewalk trick or treaters
Halloween: America's annual reminder that cities, density, and walkable neighborhoods are good, actually.
November 1, 2026 at 1:31 AM
My old neighborhood of smallish postwar bungalows and 2-over-2s had to close the streets on Halloween because the place was sidewalk to sidewalk trick or treaters
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: episodes of this superb series @bbcsounds.bsky.social
Politically - Postwar - 5. The Soldiers' Election - BBC Sounds
During the 1945 election, there were still almost five million servicemen and women.
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November 3, 2026 at 6:43 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: episodes of this superb series @bbcsounds.bsky.social
Mario Giacomelli.
He recognition for the raw expressiveness of his images, which echoed many of the concerns of postwar Neorealist film and Existentialist literature, with their interests in the conditions of everyday life and in ordinary people as thinking, feeling individuals.
He recognition for the raw expressiveness of his images, which echoed many of the concerns of postwar Neorealist film and Existentialist literature, with their interests in the conditions of everyday life and in ordinary people as thinking, feeling individuals.
November 1, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Mario Giacomelli.
He recognition for the raw expressiveness of his images, which echoed many of the concerns of postwar Neorealist film and Existentialist literature, with their interests in the conditions of everyday life and in ordinary people as thinking, feeling individuals.
He recognition for the raw expressiveness of his images, which echoed many of the concerns of postwar Neorealist film and Existentialist literature, with their interests in the conditions of everyday life and in ordinary people as thinking, feeling individuals.
Oh and look who isn't invited to the negotiations for 'Postwar". That would be the Ukraine itself. So you can see the hand that is being played here.
November 2, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Oh and look who isn't invited to the negotiations for 'Postwar". That would be the Ukraine itself. So you can see the hand that is being played here.
Mordorization of RUS in progress...
There is no possible space, now & in the postwar period, to re-establish connections with this barbaric land
There is no possible space, now & in the postwar period, to re-establish connections with this barbaric land
November 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Mordorization of RUS in progress...
There is no possible space, now & in the postwar period, to re-establish connections with this barbaric land
There is no possible space, now & in the postwar period, to re-establish connections with this barbaric land
They may be the dorkiest [laudatory] postwar film Leicas.
October 31, 2026 at 3:48 PM
They may be the dorkiest [laudatory] postwar film Leicas.
Italy's postwar communist party was the biggest in the West and Moscow-funded, so the soft spot is real. But Meloni is actually holding the line now, and the aid packages do keep coming, quietly.
November 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Italy's postwar communist party was the biggest in the West and Moscow-funded, so the soft spot is real. But Meloni is actually holding the line now, and the aid packages do keep coming, quietly.
This isn't true - capitalism performs best and is at its stablest when combined with redistributive welfare systems, as in the postwar USA and ongoing in Northern Europe. The current set of blinkered US hypercapitalists are acting against their own interests as well as society's!
November 3, 2026 at 3:49 AM
This isn't true - capitalism performs best and is at its stablest when combined with redistributive welfare systems, as in the postwar USA and ongoing in Northern Europe. The current set of blinkered US hypercapitalists are acting against their own interests as well as society's!
But also, your second paragraph says this, which is just factually wrong:
"Benefits spending as a share of GDP more than doubled from the postwar years to a post-financial-crisis peak of 12.3 per cent."
12.3% is lower than in 2010, which was post-financial crisis.
"Benefits spending as a share of GDP more than doubled from the postwar years to a post-financial-crisis peak of 12.3 per cent."
12.3% is lower than in 2010, which was post-financial crisis.
November 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM
But also, your second paragraph says this, which is just factually wrong:
"Benefits spending as a share of GDP more than doubled from the postwar years to a post-financial-crisis peak of 12.3 per cent."
12.3% is lower than in 2010, which was post-financial crisis.
"Benefits spending as a share of GDP more than doubled from the postwar years to a post-financial-crisis peak of 12.3 per cent."
12.3% is lower than in 2010, which was post-financial crisis.
🧪⚛️ Yep. The NSF was founded by a country that had shown, between New Deal agencies like the CCC, WPA, and TVA, wartime efforts like the Manhattan Project and the Rad Lab, and postwar efforts like the Berlin Airlift, that it is possible for government to understand logistics and be effective.
Worth remembering it took about 5 years to establish the US National Science Foundation.
It's predecessor organizations, as was typical before WW2, was dissolved essentially at the end of WW2.
National research organizations were regularly formed and disbanded on 5-ish year timescales before that.
It's predecessor organizations, as was typical before WW2, was dissolved essentially at the end of WW2.
National research organizations were regularly formed and disbanded on 5-ish year timescales before that.
November 1, 2026 at 11:39 PM
🧪⚛️ Yep. The NSF was founded by a country that had shown, between New Deal agencies like the CCC, WPA, and TVA, wartime efforts like the Manhattan Project and the Rad Lab, and postwar efforts like the Berlin Airlift, that it is possible for government to understand logistics and be effective.
This is a serious banger and holds up, despite being basically an academic exercise posing as a protest against Anglo dominance of postwar culture.
November 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM
This is a serious banger and holds up, despite being basically an academic exercise posing as a protest against Anglo dominance of postwar culture.
He’s claiming it’s an ancient myth yet all his examples are from postwar movies
November 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM
He’s claiming it’s an ancient myth yet all his examples are from postwar movies
welcome to my 4-hour video essay on why rat king from deadlock is a cutie patootie—and why imma make this man so super fucking pregnant
back in postwar levittown, the “american dream” was only real for a chosen few.
*cue jazz*
louis and i first locked eyes at a miles davis set at the royal roost.
back in postwar levittown, the “american dream” was only real for a chosen few.
*cue jazz*
louis and i first locked eyes at a miles davis set at the royal roost.
November 3, 2026 at 6:21 PM
welcome to my 4-hour video essay on why rat king from deadlock is a cutie patootie—and why imma make this man so super fucking pregnant
back in postwar levittown, the “american dream” was only real for a chosen few.
*cue jazz*
louis and i first locked eyes at a miles davis set at the royal roost.
back in postwar levittown, the “american dream” was only real for a chosen few.
*cue jazz*
louis and i first locked eyes at a miles davis set at the royal roost.
W managed to consolidate on the strength of the greatest national security failure in the postwar era. he built a bipartisan fortress that looked invulnerable for a thousand days.
now he's painting quasi-Hockney portraits of his feelings of inadequacy. (not ghostly Iraqi children though.)
now he's painting quasi-Hockney portraits of his feelings of inadequacy. (not ghostly Iraqi children though.)
November 3, 2026 at 6:26 PM
W managed to consolidate on the strength of the greatest national security failure in the postwar era. he built a bipartisan fortress that looked invulnerable for a thousand days.
now he's painting quasi-Hockney portraits of his feelings of inadequacy. (not ghostly Iraqi children though.)
now he's painting quasi-Hockney portraits of his feelings of inadequacy. (not ghostly Iraqi children though.)