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Skip "Inception," read this instead
If you're looking for a Mobius-strip, dreams-within-dreams experience, save the $9 on the Christopher Nolan film and read this Slate article instead. It started out as a critique of the way Politico silently corrects or otherwise edits its articles (i.e., without alerting readers). But it starts with a correction, ends with a bunch of corrections, and has a whopper of a thesis-altering clarification stuck in the middle.
As with Memento, you emerge still trying to figure out what it is you've just witnessed. Not necessarily--or not altogether--in a bad way.
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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
