Steven Mintz

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The Coen brothers make a serious man, which is basically a feature-length meditation on the type.

And Steven Mintz makes the argument that this wasn't just ethnic comedy.

His line is that mid-century Jewish neuroticism, Sherman, Allen, Philip Roth, Joan Rivers, Lenny Bruce, Joseph Heller, was one of the great emotional idioms of mid-century American culture.

Not a Jewish thing that happened to be funny.

Hi-historians of s-- historians of play have made the same point.

So for example, um, in the, in the book Huck's Raft, Stephen Mintz talks about the second half of the twentieth century as a period in which adults colonized [chuckles] the world of child- of children.

So children had their own world in the early part of the twentieth century, and over time, adults took over that world.

[chuckles] And, um, but that world is extraordinarily important to children's development, and without it, they're not developing the courage and agency and so on.