Culture
Raphael, Italian painter and architect, High Renaissance harbinger of modernity
April 3, 2020The great Italian painter and architect, Raphael, died 500 years ago, on April 6, 1520.
Read more‘Unorthodox’: The vagaries of victimization
April 1, 2020As this group of religious zealots have turned from being victims to being perpetrators, there is a cautionary that needs to be attached to this kind of fundamentalism.
Read more‘Bad Banks’: Global misbehavior in the German financial system; and ‘Nancy Drew’
March 30, 2020Season One of Bad Banks depicted the mad speculation at Deutsche Invest prior to the 2008 subprime crisis as Jena Liekam, the young financial climber and her two colleagues managed to abscond with a couple of...
Read moreGerald Horne’s new book ‘White Supremacy Confronted’ relates apartheid to Jim Crow
March 26, 2020The scale of "White Supremacy Confronted," though focused on the U.S. and South Africa, is global.
Read moreGripping crime thriller ‘Left of Eden’ set in Hollywood’s Blacklist era
March 25, 2020This will be a review/appreciation of a fresh new crime novel by one of our regular contributors to People’s World, the Paris-based American scholar Dennis Broe. Before we get down to the nitty-gritty, I thought you...
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