January 14th
…History in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus,” by Reid McCarter – Bullet Points Monthly Many have praised the new Wolfenstein game for basing its world building on the USA’s existing racism, rather than juxtaposing liberal Americans with foreign Nazi invaders. Reid McCarter complicates this, arguing that the game still reinforces the exceptionalist idea that America is defined by liberty, despite historical evidence to the contrary.
“If we use fiction to imagine the political landscape of a United States under Nazi rule, we should also be willing to look at the ways in which the real-world America influenced…