Culture
Brazil’s National Museum burns, millions of artifacts reportedly destroyed
September 4, 2018Smoke rose Monday from the burned-out hulk of Brazil’s National Museum.
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The Russian Revolution through the eyes of the Global South
September 4, 2018Marxist historian Walter Rodney distills the Bolshevik Revolution for the Global South in a new posthumous book.
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Hollywood has no time for Crazy Poor Asians
August 23, 2018They talk about cultural appropriation, but they appropriated Singapore. Even being an American person of color does not wholly erase one’s American point of view.
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Atonement and redemption in stage treatments of commies, religion, reality TV
August 21, 2018Who doesn’t love a good redemption story?
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Anti-fascist film ‘La guerre est finie’ to screen in L.A.
August 21, 2018The film takes place in 1965 in France and Spain. One of the ideological issues at stake is how best to oppose Franco’s dictatorship.
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