Culture
“The Suitcase”: Europe’s and America’s Holocausts seen from the Shawng Zeleezay
August 5, 2016The ambitious Echo Theater Company is now staging the United States premiere of a surrealistic Polish play about the Holocaust.
Read moreDown with the Republic! Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” in Topanga
August 4, 2016Ellen Geer tackles a tragedy written in 1594 set in ancient Rome, resets it in the future, and does so as comment on contemporary America.
Read moreNew history (with comics) recounts humanity’s long march toward reason
August 2, 2016These stories of humanists through history are framed as struggles against the authority of the church, which controlled almost every aspect of life for millennia.
Read moreI watched Dinesh D’Souza’s awkward anti-Hillary movie so you don’t have to
August 2, 2016D'Souza selectively culls, bends, and ultimately breaks history in a desperate attempt to show how all evil flows from Democrats.
Read moreNew book explores the roots of the term “White trash”
August 1, 2016Some landless whites in early America who survived war, workhouses, prostitution, and press gangs ditched their poverty wages and constricted lives and lit out for the territories.
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