Frederick Barr

Frederick Barr has been involved in communications for over 25 years, first as a creative professional in advertising and design, and more recently as an information activist.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Frederick Barr

Opinion

“Why Marx Was Right”: lively challenge to 10 myths
December 16, 2011 By Frederick Barr
Eagleton's bright, witty book marches forward into the usual stumbling blocks erected over the decades in the environment of popular ideology and topples them.
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Opinion

Black Friday’s heart of darkness
November 29, 2011 By Frederick Barr
Everyone should have paid attention recently as people massed in public, in numbers greater than ever. Of course, the story had elements of tragedy and violence as well.
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Opinion

“Pan Am”: Cold War nostalgia that has yet to take off
November 14, 2011 By Frederick Barr
It's obvious that Pan Am, ABC TV's ambitious new series, is a major network's bid to seize the audience that has made Mad Men a cable television sensation.
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Opinion

Confronting the walking dead: John Quiggin’s “Zombie Economics”
November 8, 2011 By Frederick Barr
The zombie metaphor is both witty and apt when discussing how ideas about society and finance that have alarmingly failed refuse to stay dead and buried.
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