Adam Gopnik warns of our tendency to normalise evil behaviour. What may pass for entertainment in Mafia movies, must be seen through a different lens in real life.
"The risk of crime is not crime alone, but the abyss that opens at our feet when once we have decided that the rules that count for other people don't count for us."
Producer: Sheila Cook Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Liam Morrey Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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The Secret Life of Food
The Creep of the On-Screen Narrative
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A Study in Improbability
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The Boring Twenties
The Culture War
Anti-Zionism and the Death of Tragedy
The Arts in Our Hearts
The Past is Never Dead
Eavesdropping
On Concrete
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