arts and culture
‘Anonymous Man’: Astounding new choral CD on home, homelessness and history
May 8, 2020Perhaps the next time we see people living on the street they won’t appear so anonymous.
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Class and corona culture: The more things change…
April 21, 2020In many ways the rearrangement of life in the wake of the global impact of the coronavirus has created a brave new world.
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Drowning with our money belts: Putting profits before people in time of crisis
April 17, 2020Revisiting the wisdom of fables is not nostalgia for childhood; perhaps, instead, it is the imperative self-critical practice that will reconnect us to the wisdom we possessed as children.
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‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch on the fight to save America’s public schools
April 15, 2020Diane Ravitch writes with anger—but it’s righteous anger, it’s justified and it’s what we need right now.
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‘Ozark’ and middle-class life under pressure; Dr. Freud in ‘Vienna Blood’
April 14, 2020Both series skirt the potentially most shocking and damning aspect of the young Freud’s discoveries, the incest he found, through an examination of his female patients, lurking at the heart of the Viennese upper-middle-class bourgeois order.
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