The Resistance Is Alive

The Resistance Is Alive

“The resistance of 2025 may not be wearing a pink knitted cap — but it’s alive in town halls, streets, campuses and car dealerships across the country,” Axios reports. “The early moves of President Trump’s second term have pulled a wide range of Americans into the political crosshairs, from National Parks Service workers to Social Security recipients to the transgender community.”

Read Lolita in Tehran tells how women resisted the Mullah regime by literature between the 1980s and 1990s. Like Azar Nafisi's book from which he is drawn, this week's film offers a meditation on the powers of the imagination in the face of authoritarianism or whether it is.