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The times they are a-changing: The Venice Biennale and late capitalism
September 11, 2019May You Live in Interesting Times is the title and organizing principle of this year’s Venice Biennale, the every-other-year festival of contemporary art.
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Leon Wofsy: The Organizer (1921-2019)
September 5, 2019Leon Wofsy understood that serious politics are mass politics.
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‘Vita & Virginia’: Two British novelists’ love affair in new film
September 3, 2019Since her untimely death, British writer Virginia Woolf has become a feminist icon for her literary explorations into the subject of womanhood in contemporary society.
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September 1, 1939: In memory of poet W.H. Auden
August 30, 2019Homage to Clio, the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1960 small book of light verse—the later, shorter poems—is where I found out about the ninth muse, the Muse of History.
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Communist Party USA: 100 years in struggle for peace, democracy, socialism
August 30, 2019Just as it was a century ago, the idea of socialism is again on the minds of millions. And just like then, the Communist Party is a part of the mix.
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