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An interview with Karl Marx
May 5, 2020When asked what was the main law of life, Marx answered with a single word: "Struggle!"
Read more‘George W. Bush’: Stunning documentary on worst American president (until now)
May 5, 2020Barak Goodman and Jamila Ephron’s new PBS documentary George W. Bush is an excellent treatment of 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush.
Read moreSurviving COVID-19 in Vietnam, the ‘safest place in the world’
April 30, 2020As an American living in Hanoi, everyone from back home has been calling to check on my safety. But I tell them there's nowhere I'd be safer than where I am now.
Read moreNetflix’s ‘Hollywood’: Ambitious love letter to a tainted industry
April 29, 2020At a time when so-called “edgy” storytelling relies so heavily on tragic figures and miserable endings for the sake of “realism,” Hollywood’s attempt to give a little glimmer of joy is a breath of fresh air.
Read moreL.A. in the sixties: Power to the people in the City of Angels
April 28, 2020This very readable but meticulously detailed year-by-year account has relevance far beyond its time and place.
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