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Alex Winter’s new documentary about the musician fails to capture his deeply conventional streak.

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Isabel Wilkerson compares American racism to structures of oppression in India and Nazi Germany.

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White supremacists have found inspiration in the ultraviolent, ultrapopular saga.

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