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Movies & TV • June 10, 2026

RoboCop: Privatizing the Failure of the Public Sector

RoboCop is usually read as a brutal Reagan-era satire about corporate greed, privatized policing, media rot, and the conversion of human life into marketable hardware. That reading is correct. But it is not the only one. Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 sci-fi classic also works as a nasty little thought experiment: what happens when the public sector […]

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