There is a quote near the beginning of his book, The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, from a retired army colonel who says that a new American civil war would not be like the ...

Marche is the author of “The Next ... War. Contemplating the horrors of a civil war — whether as a thought experiment or in a theatrical blockbuster — helps counteract a reflexive sense of ...

Yet by 2022, another novelist, Stephen Marche, was publishing The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future – and this was speculative non-fiction, about today. Now comes a new movie ...

According to Alex Garland, the writer-director, anyone who has followed American politics ... For some Americans, then, “Civil War” offers a horrifying vision of the future.

The new movie “Civil War” hits ... to doubt the future of our system of government. In March, a Grinnell College national poll found 25% of respondents “believe American democracy will ...

Director Alex Garland is out to prove that you can make a movie about a modern American civil war without getting political ... to contemplate the nation’s future: Do the Western Forces have ...

The moment the first trailer for Civil War dropped, people immediately began asking if it was such a great idea to release a film about the collapse of American ... into the future and anticipate ...

Well, actually, it did both: Published in 1836 but with a date on the title page of 1856, as if remembering a war that had already occurred, The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future didn’t so ...

It’s the near-future ... politics and American exceptionalism have been rendered moot by war. Kirsten Dunst plays a war photographer in Alex Garland’s “Civil War.” Credit ...