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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Don't Mention the War
Pets Aren't People!
Brief Encounters
The Great Conjunction
Reflections on My Mother's Kenwood Mixer
The Pro-Mask Movement
What's the Magic Number?
Conspiracy Theories and a Good Hair Cut
Having the 'Wrong' Politics
Thinking Otherwise
A Fine Line
Tolerance: the Unfashionable Virtue
The End of Progress?
Gender in the Blender
The Big Benefits of Smallness
A Hazy Shade of Winter
Legacy Bottle Opener
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