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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure

July 31, 2019 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.

Review: ‘The Sex Factor – How Women Made the West Rich’

July 26, 2019 By Kimball Cariou

Some readers will think Bateman’s views towards Marxist analyses are less than accurate, but she offers a valuable perspective rarely mentioned in bourgeois academia.

‘The Mountain’: A disturbing feature about lobotomy in the 1950s

July 24, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps The Mountain can be seen as the menacing underside of the Madison Avenue success that America in the 1950s was built up to be.

Documentary ‘Cooked: Survival by Zip Code’ re-defines racism, poverty as disasters

July 24, 2019 By Tim Libretti

If we devoted as much political will and resources to addressing poverty and racism as we do to preparing for “natural” disasters, they'd inflict much less devastation on human lives.

‘An American Saga Revival of Gunshot Medley: Part I,’ a Black epitaph

July 23, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

A lyrical and mystical new play with live music is a high-power rifle shot across the bow of systemic American racism.