Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly

Waleed Aly hosts Drive on ABC Radio National and is a lecturer in politics at Monash University. He writes fortnightly for The Age.

Zero Dark Thirty

Justifying means to end bin Laden puts Bigelow on torturous path

Waleed Aly Whatever Kathryn Bigelow's intention with Zero Dark Thirty, her new blockbuster about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, one fact is inescapable: this is a pro-torture film.

Patriotic triumph

Newsroom episode laden with revenge

Jeff Daniels in a scene from <i>The Newsroom</i>. Right: Osama bin Laden.

Waleed Aly What does Aaron Sorkin’s drama series really tell us about the American psyche in its treatment of the killing of Osama bin Laden?

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