Culture
‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch on the fight to save America’s public schools
April 15, 2020Diane Ravitch writes with anger—but it’s righteous anger, it’s justified and it’s what we need right now.
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Sickness and the cure: The great pandemic films, and the greatest
April 14, 2020The current disaster is an opportunity for us to build a better world. Understanding this one is just the first step!
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‘Ozark’ and middle-class life under pressure; Dr. Freud in ‘Vienna Blood’
April 14, 2020Both series skirt the potentially most shocking and damning aspect of the young Freud’s discoveries, the incest he found, through an examination of his female patients, lurking at the heart of the Viennese upper-middle-class bourgeois order.
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Fascist admirers and collaborators: New book exposes Hitler’s American friends
April 13, 2020Needless to say, Hitler’s American Friends is a darkly informative read, a reminder that fascists and their supporters once held considerable sway in American political discourse.
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Netflix’s ‘How to Fix a Drug Scandal’ will anger you, and rightly so
April 10, 2020It is a documentary that will have audiences discussing the intersectionality of race, class, and gender when it comes to the criminal justice system.
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