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Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair at the American Enterprise Institute and renowned political economist and demographer, offers a unique look into America's biggest demographic crisis yet:...
- 71 min
- 308.9K
- Wheatley Institute
- 6 A Girl, She Is 100%
- 5 Hear The Wind Sing
- 4 Tony Takitani
- 3 Norwegian Wood
- 2 Burning
- 1 Drive My Car
A Girl, She is 100% is a short film, but despite its run time, it still is captivating. The film is based on Murakami’s short story “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning,” which appeared in his collection The Elephant Vanishes. The story tells the perspective of a young man who walks past the 100% girl of his dreams, a girl t...
Released in 1981, Hear the Wind Sing was adapted from Murakami’s first novel to be published. Like the youthful sense its author had at publication, its characters embody the youths working and living in the city of Kobe. One could argue that Murakami’s novel lacks a sense of direction, that it tends to ramble on the page, but the film manages to l...
One of Murakami’s signature character traits is a deep loneliness that permeates every part of a character’s life. Tony Takitani is one of the earlier adaptations of his work, one that brings one of these characters to life in a way pivotal to the movie’s story. Tony Takitani is ostracized by society due to his English name, leading him down a lone...
Norwegian Wood was directed by Vietnamese director Tran Ahn Hung, who was making his first film in Japanese. Toru Watanabe is a young man studying at a university in Tokyo, mocks his roommate, and has just lost his best friend from home due to suicide. Watanabe then enters a love triangle between his dead best friend’s girlfriend (Rinko Kikuchi) an...
South Korean director Lee Chang-dong is one of the most prolific filmmakers in South Korea. His 2018 film Burning, adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning,” was the first Korean film to be named to the Oscar shortlist. This is a feat surpassed with the release of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Burning also won the FIPRESCI International ...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car became the first Japanese film nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. It had many other nominations too: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. The movie was adapted from the short story of the same name, “Drive My Car,” which appeared in Murakami’s short story collection Men...
Georgi Genkov Music. Vesela Hadzhipetrova Editing. Critics reviews. A road-building team is forced to stay idle a couple of days since asphalt has not been delivered. Provided they are willing, the members of the team can help clean the dusty square in a near-by village, but the boys are openly hostile to the idea of their team leader.
Men Without Women (Japanese: 女のいない男たち, Hepburn: Onna no inai otokotachi) is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death.
Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis is a 2016 book by the American political economist Nicholas Eberstadt discussing the phenomenon of American men in their prime leaving the workforce.
- Nicholas Eberstadt
- 2016
Oct 24, 2022 · Today, nearly one in six prime working age men has no paid work at all—and nearly one in eight is out of the labor force entirely, neither working nor even looking for work. This new normal of “men without work,” argues Eberstadt, is “America’s invisible crisis.”
Oct 24, 2016 · While Madrick asserts that the expansion of disability rolls have had little impact on the collapse of work for men, Men Without Work shows (pp. 117-120) that 57 percent of men twenty-five to fifty-four years of age who are out of the labor force reported benefits from at least one government disability program in 2013.
