The Post: a brilliant reminder of what democracy looks like

As a lying president conducts a daily war against the media in Washington, The Post is a story of how the system would be working if truth weren’t buried under a deluge of nonsense.

Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, played Tom Hanks, in the foreground, speaks with newspaper staff in a scene from The Post. Niko Tavernise photograph courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

January 24, 2018

Of all the things the Steven Spielberg Pentagon Papers drama The Post is, a period piece isn’t one of them. Yes, it’s set in 1971. Yes, there are shots of hot metal typesetting and everyone’s smoking their heads off. Newsrooms were noisy and at Georgetown dinner parties, the women,...

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