Culture
TV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series
December 21, 2020Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...
Read moreDavi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences
December 21, 2020From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute [IMS] which presented the Yanomamis’...
Read moreRemembering protest singer Phil Ochs on his 80th birthday
December 18, 2020Ochs was one of our nation’s most profound singer/songwriters in the period that bridged the Civil Rights, antiwar, and feminist movements.
Read moreComing undone: ‘The Undoing,’ ‘Big Sky,’ ‘The Deceived’ and the limits of MeToo
December 16, 2020“The rich are different,” said Fitzgerald, in a languishing dreamy tone. “Yes,” replied Hemingway brusquely, “they have more money.”
Read moreFrederick Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’: Let us now praise democracy
December 15, 2020Director Frederick Wiseman has gifted us with a movie for our times. City Hall is all about democracy—how it works, who does it, and why it is so vital.
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