Culture
‘Jordskott’ and ecological horror; ‘One Day at a Time’ revived
April 7, 2020The Swedish series with the mysterious title Jordskott is an anomaly wrapped in an enigma.
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‘For Life’ and Black incarceration; The twin meanings of ‘Twisty’
April 6, 2020The 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.
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‘A Threat of the First Magnitude’: A history of FBI counterintelligence and infiltration
April 3, 2020During the 1960s and 1970s the Federal Bureau of Investigation infiltrated, spied on, and harassed progressive and radical organizations and individuals across the country.
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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.
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‘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.
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