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The article focuses on the host of the Daily Show on Apple television channel, Jon Stewart and his political views. It discusses various movements that are talked about in the show including the free speech movement, racism, feminism, and education right. It discusses many examples of liberal and conservative perspectives.

The article focuses on the 1619 Project is an ongoing project developed by The New York Times Magazine in 2019 with the goal of reframing American history around slavery and the contributions of African Americans. Topics include slavery have been one of the original sins committed by European colonists in North America; and slaves helped build both the pyramids and the Parthenon, tilled fields in Attica and paved the Appian Way.

The article discusses challenges to free speech in the social media age. Topics include moderation of online content by social media companies such as Reddit and Facebook, mistakes in censorship made by online moderators, and blocking content to appease governments. The possibility of bot-generated disinformation and fake stories causing wars and crimes is discussed.

The article focuses on issues about social justice in the U.S. Topics being presented include the concept of cultural appropriation, which is considered as the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, and ideas of a group of people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society as well as indigenous groups harmed by colonization and Amerindian culture.

The article reflects on the need to care about an artist's intent as it is care about an artist's actions, both good and bad. It argues whether audiences will continue to laugh at "The Cosby Show" knowing that its star is a convicted sex offender or identify with actor Dustin Hoffman after hearing that he sexually humiliated underage girls. It also makes reference to the film "Manhattan."

The article offers the author's insights regarding the weakness of women politicians in terms of being the villain compared with men politicians. The author discusses the impact of the defeat of former U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton at the 2016 presidential election against Donald Trump in her career and role wherein she and her husband Bill Clinton has been subjected conspiracy theories such as the death of Vince Foster and Ron Brown.

The article focuses on the scene which comes from A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick, where the dialogue is flat, the pacing is monotonous and the people all will talk like automatons and the character in the movie is forced to enact like robot. It states that in the film's New York premier, audience members, including many executives walked out in droves before the film was over.

The author presents his remarks on the works and contributions of American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in U.S. film industry. Topics include the cancelation of the film "The Hateful Eight" due to leaking of script by the online media company Gawker Media LLC, the plan of Tarantino to retire from his career, and the similarity of Tarantino and actor Mel Brooks in terms of their popularity.

The article discusses the rise of auterism, the study of film, which was first introduced by film critic Francois Trauffaut in his published article "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema" in January 1954. The specific criteria for the qualification of film directors as an auteur has also been established by former Signal Corpsman Andrew Sarris in ligned with Traffaut's idea.

A literary criticism of the book "Live Cinema & its Techniques" by Francis Ford Coppola is presented. It outlines the author and film director Francis Ford Coppola's concept of Live Cinema to shooting a live movie and experimenting it with the movie "One from the Heart". It also discusses how he is trying to do the same with the production of screenplay "Dark Electric Vision"