'Killers of the Flower Moon' and the Limits of Narrative

Scorsese's epic is about the construction of narratives as much as it is telling a historical story

Jesse Plemens and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon

I think—probably too much—about the way media will capture the insanity of our present moment. You hear so often that “history will not be kind to him” or “we’re on the right side of history.” But why does anyone have so much faith in history? Why should we presume that history has been ge…