There’s something powerful—and, yes, stripped down—about seeing these politicians and newscasters without being able to hear their language.
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Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
24 July 2026
The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity.
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Andrew Katzenstein,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
The announcement has sparked concern among families who view these schools as community anchors.
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Ted Scouten,
CBS News,
25 Aug. 2026
Capp’s flagship class on the Vietnam War’s impact on American religion and culture became a national sensation, drawing praise from members of Congress, television news anchors, and public intellectuals.
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