#83 - Primary Colors

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#83 - Primary Colors

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Jan 4, 2019

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John Travolta stars as a barely-fictionalized Bill Clinton in Mike Nichols' 1998 sorta-satire about how politics crushes idealism. We excavate this once-praised relic from the End of History, and are left with the question: what, exactly, was "idealism" in the Clinton era?

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