Culture
Marx, psychiatry, and national liberation come together in Fanon bio
April 5, 2017To ‘New Leftists’, few authors and revolutionaries loom as large as Frantz Fanon. His most well-known book, The Wretched of the Earth, is a mainstay of left literature.
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New film is a double portrait of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne
March 28, 2017The film examines how two friends on vastly different social levels were able to maintain their association, and ultimately what came between them.
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Radical theatre tradition lives on in “Harlequino: On to Freedom”
March 28, 2017Harlequino’s playwright upends conventional notions of this epoch and its theater by making the protagonist, Harlequino, Black. The African slave trade had already begun and the comedy (albeit with serious undertones) contends something I’d never heard...
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How long is Lenin’s shadow?
March 28, 2017There was no one right way to resolve the dilemmas Lenin left behind. Perhaps it is past time that the competing camps of “Leninists” reconcile on this matter.
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A greeting to Maryland visitors: “Welcome to Harriet Tubman country”
March 27, 2017The visitor center opened three weeks ago and has become a magnet drawing people from Baltimore, Washington, DC., Philadelphia and even from abroad.
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