history
‘The Americans’ reaches new heights in “The Summit”
May 18, 2018Much of Elizabeth’s undercover work this season has focused on digging up intel to help the Soviets during the upcoming nuclear armaments summit with the U.S.
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This week in history: Sex scientist Magnus Hirschfeld
May 14, 2018His Scientific Humanitarian Committee, founded in Germany in 1897, blazed the trail of gay rights.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ is a powerful posthumous act of resistance
May 11, 2018"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”—Zora Neale Hurston
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Marxism: A living science 200 years later
May 11, 2018Simply criticizing capitalism does not make someone a Marxist. You've got to be in the thick of the battle for human liberation.
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I was curious, so I saw ‘The Death of Stalin’
May 11, 2018Perhaps Marx was right when he wrote that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.
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