Band-Aids Don't Fix Bullet Holes

Telling feel-good stories about America will not repair democracy's serious wounds.

One of the biggest thinkpiece topics over the last six weeks has been Alex Garland’s indie studio hit, Civil War, a film that is simultaneously about war journalism and the disintegration of our country in an imagined near-future due to a President who illegally serves a third term, dissolves the FBI, and rules in a fascist manner. There’s been much tal…