Can You Critique an Idea While Engaging With the Thing That Makes It Enticing?

Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the changing meaning of the Batman character, the effectiveness and limitations of vigilante stories, and the implications of radicalized villains in a time where actual conspiracy theories are causing increasing harm, in Matt Reeves’ The Batman.

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