Culture
This week: The cry of the Canaanites is heard at Passover
April 10, 2017“Can we transform the dream of a Promised Land into the reality of a land that is truly promised to all?”
Read moreMarx, psychiatry, and national liberation come together in Fanon bio
April 5, 2017To ‘New Leftists’, few authors and revolutionaries loom as large as Frantz Fanon. His most well-known book, The Wretched of the Earth, is a mainstay of left literature.
Read moreNew film is a double portrait of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne
March 28, 2017The film examines how two friends on vastly different social levels were able to maintain their association, and ultimately what came between them.
Read moreRadical theatre tradition lives on in “Harlequino: On to Freedom”
March 28, 2017Harlequino’s playwright upends conventional notions of this epoch and its theater by making the protagonist, Harlequino, Black. The African slave trade had already begun and the comedy (albeit with serious undertones) contends something I’d never heard...
Read moreHow long is Lenin’s shadow?
March 28, 2017There was no one right way to resolve the dilemmas Lenin left behind. Perhaps it is past time that the competing camps of “Leninists” reconcile on this matter.
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