Why You Should Be Watching The Man in the High Castle

If you’ve read Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, you know the Big Idea, here: World War II is over, and Germany and its allies won. The world has been carved up between Japan and Germany. What was once the United States is divided between the Japanese Pacific States and the Greater Reich, with a “neutral zone” around the Rocky Mountain region.

The year is 1962, and a subversive film is making the rounds in revolutionary circles: it’s a film that shows the allies winning World War I...