Culture
Native dramatist satirizes ‘woke’ pretensions in ‘The Thanksgiving Play’
October 20, 2023SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—What is to be done about Thanksgiving? What does it even mean anymore? How do we celebrate it? Should we at all? And most importantly, how do we teach it to our children? What...
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ weaves beauty and strength throughout a gruesome tale
October 19, 2023The plot is centered on a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, committed after oil was discovered on tribal land.
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POETRY: Open the books!
October 18, 2023"What is that you say? That you, who built your empire off the sweat of our labor, cannot afford to keep us on at union wages?"
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The Jewish Labor Bund, a history in comic book form
October 17, 2023The Bund is no great mystery to serious students of modern Jewish history, though a full understanding of its achievements may still be limited to those who can read Yiddish.
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‘The War on Disco’: Winners and losers in 1970s American culture
October 16, 2023As long as there has been culture, there have been cultural wars. Whenever there have been differences between individuals or groups within society, there has been a battle of ideas, styles, language, narrative, dress, and entertainment.
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