Culture
Wildly funny political satire ‘The Outsider’ exposes sorry secrets of electoral appeal
June 20, 2024Politics these days is hardly a laughing matter, but there’s always a privileged spot for satire irrespective of how grim the forecast.
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‘From Here/From There’ (De Aqui/de Alla): The Extraordinary Journey of Luis Cortes Romero
June 17, 2024PBS tells the story of the first undocumented attorney to argue a case before the Supreme Court.
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‘Mute Compulsion’: A Danish Marxist examines the economic power of capital
June 14, 2024Why does capitalism not simply break down on its own internal contradictions?
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The robots are coming! R. U. R.eady for ‘R.U.R. Cabaret?’
June 7, 2024R.U.R. Cabaret, the musical, running about 90 minutes with one intermission, is set in a dystopian future on an island where the robots were originally created to do the work of humans and labor for them...
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To Pahatlabong and back: ‘The Explorers Club’ slow-roasts Victorian imperialism
June 6, 2024BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Victorian England in the 1860s and ’70s represented the height of the British Empire, a time when this devout Christian nation was torn apart by Darwinian science, which in turn inspired, in...
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