12 Years A Slave Redux

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/12-years-a-slave-and-the-obama-era.html

Chait talks about the resonance of that powerful film with today's politics.

Also, I assigned the movie over break and the male students "thought it would be worse" while the female students found it profoundly unsettling.  Primarily because - as Chait notes - it is the psychological terror of slavery as depicted in the movie that is so disturbing.  And teenage boys don't really do psychological stuff.