The New ‘Dune’ Movie Deviates From the Spirit of the Original Novel—With Disappointing Results

[View this email in your browser]( March 14, 2024 • Adar II 4, 5784 TONIGHT This is a member event. To become a member, and get a registration link for the Zoom, click [here](. Existing members should have received a link via email. If you’ve lost track of it, write to [membership@tabletmag.com](mailto:membership@tabletmag.com?subject=Antisemitism%20at%20School&body=I'm%20a%20member.%20Please%20send%20me%20a%20link%20for%20tonight's%20Zoom.%20). # [The Dune We Deserve]( Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ is a spiritually empty, imaginatively bereft upscale spectacle, engineered for fans of Kamala Harris and subscribers to The New Yorker [BY LIEL LEIBOVITZ](#) LISTEN TO TABLET # UNORTHODOX [Irrefutably Jewish]( Ep. 403: Phil Rosenthal on writing a children’s book with his daughter Lily; a classical Jewish school in New York City; Oscar meshugas; and more MARCH 14, 2024 IN THE SCROLL Why is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security funding a nonprofit dedicated to fighting “lack of diversity” and “problematic game design” in the video-game industry? That was our question when reading a Monday blog post from the “mental health” nonprofit Take This titled “Responding to GamerGate 2.” GamerGate 1, of course, was the 2014 social media flame war that pitted a clique of politically progressive video-game industry “insiders” against a decentralized network of “outsiders,” principally gamers mobilized against what they saw as the clubbiness and political groupthink of the industry’s elite. [READ ALL ABOUT IT]( # # This email was sent to you by [Tablet Magazine](#) Tablet Magazine | P.O. Box 20079 | New York, NY 10001 [Remove me from this list]( | [Forward to a Friend]( You are receiving this email because you signed up at our website, www.tabletmag.com. Tablet Magazine P.O. Box 20079 New York, NY 10001 USA Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp [Mailchimp Email Marketing](