Culture
History making legendary writer Toni Morrison passes away at 88
August 6, 2019"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
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Television and Tito in new exhibitions at the Wende Museum
August 2, 2019I remember thinking, on my forays into Eastern European socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, that politics aside, most people’s lives ambled along pretty uneventfully. The Wende exhibition confirms this impression.
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‘Fast & Furious’ presents ‘Hobbs & Shaw’: Samoa gets the ‘Black Panther’ treatment
August 1, 2019Hobbs & Shaw does for Samoa what Black Panther did for Africa with Wakanda.
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Participants in the radical student upsurge speak out in this volume
August 1, 2019The editors of this volume should be thanked for bringing these illuminating and insightful essays to publication.
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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure
July 31, 2019Mazin 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.
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