To understand the ostensible intent of Jon Stewart’s latest film, Irresistible, it’s best to begin at the end: “Money lived happily ever after…reveling in its outsized influence over American politics,” a postscript reads. This is a uniquely unifying idea in contemporary America, one that all but the most extreme fanatics and plutocrats can rally behind. But on his way to this punctuation mark, Stewart constructs a film built on equal-opportunity caricature, one as dangerous in what it ignores as it…
