Almost everything has been invoked to account for Trump’s victory and the rise of alt-right, from job loss to racism to demography — everything, that is, except culture.
In The Sky Is Falling, bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind dives headlong into two decades of movies and TV — from superhero franchises such as the Dark Knights, X-Men, and Avengers and series like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones to thrillers like Homeland and 24 — and emerges to argue that these shows are actually saturated with the values that are currently animating our extreme politics.
