Culture
The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival: ‘Attica’ revisited
October 22, 2021Law and order vs. anarchy was the perceived battle, but the evil of mass incarceration was exposed and prison reform was put on the agenda.
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Liam O’Flaherty and the Irish Free State on its centennial
October 21, 2021Liam O’Flaherty is one of the foremost Irish fiction writers of the 20th century. Like none other, he commented on the times as they were unfolding.
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‘Dune’ 2021: A more mature ‘Star Wars’ with an edge
October 21, 2021Dune the book came first. Paul existed before Luke, and I didn’t feel like I was subliminally being sold toys.
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Multimillionaire counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin’s new book ‘American Marxism’
October 20, 2021Intellectually lazy, sloppily assembled, riddled with errors of fact and interpretation on almost every page, American Marxism serves to be memorized and repeated like a catechism for its conservative reading audience.
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Tom Paxton returns to the concert stage
October 18, 2021He is an American folk-singing troubadour and his songs of love, life, and social justice have reached a worldwide audience.
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