Culture
‘Space Force’: What could have been ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is instead ‘McHale’s Navy’
June 30, 2020Netflix’s Space Force is tepid, often unfunny, not skewering or lambasting but often romanticizing of what the U.S. is doing in space.
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Religion and progressive politics in America: A book review
June 29, 2020Each chapter is a whole new story, a movement, preacher, or history lesson.
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Pain, hope, change: Boarded-up buildings become canvases for radical art
June 29, 2020Activist artists transform sealed businesses into public art broadcasting a message of resilience and social transformation.
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Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]
June 25, 2020Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.
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[Spoiler-free] Review: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ reclaims narrative of Black soldiers in Vietnam
June 25, 2020If, as a civilian observer, you find it important to experience the realities and complexities of war and racism, then Spike Lee’s latest film Da 5 Bloods is required watching.
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