Culture
Beyond the music: Portugal’s Avante! festival combines culture and Marxist politics
September 9, 2019Its musical lineup could rival the profit-driven Coachella, but this jamboree is embedded with the spirit of resistance and anti-fascism.
Read moreThe art of ‘The Heal,’ Sophocles’s ‘Philoctetes’ in a Malibu amphitheater
September 6, 2019The production, performed in front of an ancient Roman-style villa that is a repository of relics wrought contemporaneously when Sophocles created his dramas, is suffused with philosophical musings.
Read morePeasant Bruegel: An appreciation of the Dutch realist painter
September 5, 2019His art represents the early stages, the progressive, indeed revolutionary, element of bourgeois realism.
Read moreSecond World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism
September 5, 2019The world’s workers in general—and women in particular—benefited from the “ideological tension” created by state socialism and its allies in the Third World.
Read moreThe good, the bad and the ugly at Venice Film Festival 2019
September 4, 2019The film highlights the way the European high-level political and financial institutions are not about promoting but rather about neutralizing any democratic movement from below.
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