Culture – Page 249 – People's World

The Kaminski method: Tight, taut WWII action in ‘Enemy Lines’

April 20, 2020 By Ed Rampell

As people grapple with a planetary pandemic, an exciting new movie is premiering just in time to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of our last global conflagration.

Drowning with our money belts: Putting profits before people in time of crisis

April 17, 2020 By Brandon James O’Neil

Revisiting the wisdom of fables is not nostalgia for childhood; perhaps, instead, it is the imperative self-critical practice that will reconnect us to the wisdom we possessed as children.

‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch on the fight to save America’s public schools

April 15, 2020 By Rob Boston

Diane Ravitch writes with anger—but it’s righteous anger, it’s justified and it’s what we need right now.

Sickness and the cure: The great pandemic films, and the greatest

April 14, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

The current disaster is an opportunity for us to build a better world. Understanding this one is just the first step!

‘Ozark’ and middle-class life under pressure; Dr. Freud in ‘Vienna Blood’

April 14, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Both series skirt the potentially most shocking and damning aspect of the young Freud’s discoveries, the incest he found, through an examination of his female patients, lurking at the heart of the Viennese upper-middle-class bourgeois order.