Culture
Dominican Republic jazz report: When in Cabarete, dance merengue
November 9, 2018The 21st annual Dominican Republic Jazz finished off with a bang in this beach town on November 5. The final concert was—where else?—on Cabarete’s wide yellow-sand beach.
Read moreThe Discarded Soldier
November 9, 2018“The ribbons faded on his breast. He was cast into the great city, homeless, unwanted, penniless. Capitalism no longer needed him.”
Read more‘Boy Erased’ exposes so-called gay conversion therapy
November 8, 2018A whole industry has grown up around the fraudulent premise that homosexual orientation can simply be “prayed away.”
Read more‘Satyagraga’: Philip Glass’s colossal Gandhi epic is activist opera at its best
November 7, 2018With Satyagraha Philip Glass transports us to the higher realms of cosmic consciousness. It’s a lot more enlightening to ride in one of Krishna’s chariots than in a yellow cab.
Read moreChe Guevara and Cuba’s battle of ideas
November 7, 2018Children by the thousands are moving from Central America to the U.S. border. They’ve experienced unimaginable grief. The media and U.S. public officials vilify them.
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