This weekend, listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the press reporters who composed them.Some concepts
in American life are so widely held and often invoked that it can seem like bad manners or straight-out deception to suggest that they may not be true.There is a class of facts– it would be more precise to call them misconceptions or shibboleths– that everyone understands and nobody entirely thinks. The Supreme Court is above politics. Rock ‘n’ roll will never die. Hollywood is liberal.Everyone knows Hollywood is progressive. However if you look at the films it
produces, argues the Times film critic A.O. Scott, they inform another story. ◆ ◆ ◆ Written and narrated by Jody Rosen The George W. Bush Presidential Center, in Dallas, is