Culture

‘For Life’ and Black incarceration; The twin meanings of ‘Twisty’

April 6, 2020 By Dennis Broe

The best network series in what might be a coronavirus-abbreviated season is ABC’s For Life, a combination prison/courtroom drama about an innocent African-American inmate sentenced to life imprisonment.

‘A Threat of the First Magnitude’: A history of FBI counterintelligence and infiltration

April 3, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky

During the 1960s and 1970s the Federal Bureau of Investigation infiltrated, spied on, and harassed progressive and radical organizations and individuals across the country.

Raphael, Italian painter and architect, High Renaissance harbinger of modernity

April 3, 2020 By Jenny Farrell

The great Italian painter and architect, Raphael, died 500 years ago, on April 6, 1520.

‘Unorthodox’: The vagaries of victimization

April 1, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

As 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.

‘Bad Banks’: Global misbehavior in the German financial system; and ‘Nancy Drew’

March 30, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Season 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...