arts and culture
‘Power of Sail’: Fighting Nazis in the Ivy League (or inviting them in)
February 23, 2022This is truly what theater and the arts need to be doing now to educate, enlighten, and awaken.
Read moreNew book explores fear of Black consciousness—and who fears it
February 18, 2022Fear of Black Consciousness deserves to be carefully studied.
Read more‘Legacy of a Garage Band’: A bittersweet Chicano reminiscence of lost youth
February 17, 2022In many ways Legacy is a coming-of-age story.
Read moreGeorg Weerth, first poet of the German working class, on his bicentennial
February 16, 2022“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet...” So wrote Frederick Engels in 1883 on his friend Georg Weerth, who came into the world 200 years ago.
Read more‘Yellowstone’: Low Noon, or How the Western was Lost
February 15, 2022The writers shifted focus to an idealized cowboy lifestyle which Sheridan located in Texas—where a man could still be “free.”
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