Culture
And then Trump came for me…
July 27, 2020"Fascism is never satisfied and has an insatiable appetite for the liberties of men and women everywhere. It is a secret combination that seeks to destroy the liberty of all." – People’s World cartoonist Greg Kearney
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‘The Gadfly,’ an Irishwoman’s novel of revolutionaries: Remembering Ethel Voynich
July 24, 2020What was this book, so widely read by Republicans in Ireland and the Labour movement in Britain in its own day?
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Apocalypse Rot, a quarantined poem
July 17, 2020"Who knew the apocalypse would come by way of cough?"
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Can romance transcend class? Hochschild’s ‘Rebel Cinderella’ in review
July 15, 2020The personal story celebrates Rose Pastor Stokes, a young communist woman who could not be corrupted by wealth. The political story documents a reactionary America, belligerent with anti-communist hysteria.
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They stream movies, don’t they? ‘City of Tiny Lights’ and ‘Hamilton’
July 14, 2020For 4th of July weekend, Disney+ served up an exquisitely well-filmed but troubling version of the mega New York theater hit Hamilton about the country’s founding fathers.
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