Imagine living in a country with restricted freedom of the press. The COVID-19 pandemic hits, and with it, an overwhelming sea of information. Every morning at 7:00 a.m. the president of this country hosts a media conference where he openly denies science. The chief epidemiologist makes up elaborate technical excuses…

In “Roma,” a white-Mexican director tells the story of a brown-skinned indigenous domestic worker — like my friend Zoe Mendelson says, this was bound to generate polemics. The American press hailed it as the “Latest Entry in Alfonso Cuarón’s Feminist Oeuvre” and Naomi Klein called it one of the most…