‘The Reagan Show’ Gives Us the 1980s as Farce

It’s like ‘Veep’ for ’80s kids.

History, any self-satisfied student of the last century will tell you, is more than just what happened. Hayden White, one of my favorites on the matter, reduces the subject to a series of rhetorical devices: explanations by emplotment, argument or call to ideological arms. Sierra Pettengill and Pacho Velez’s found footage …