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On the Topanga Trail of the Assassins: ‘Caesar’ on stage in L.A.
July 14, 2021After an extended intermission suffering under the twin tyrannies and plagues of Trumpism and COVID, the return of Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum marks a major milestone on our road back to fully living. For what is life...
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Communist Party of China at 100: A look past mainstream commentary
June 30, 2021Riffing on Karl Marx, Francis Fukuyama infamously dubbed 1989-91 to be the “end of history," signaling that liberal capitalism was the final stage in human evolution. So how has China defied Western expectations?
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Sen. Roy Blunt confirms: GOP is the party of Jim Crow
June 28, 2021What we see today is a Republican Party that follows naturally from Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
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‘Dispatch Hitler to Hell’: Anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the USSR
June 22, 2021Military and political “experts” in the West predicted Hitler would conquer the Soviet Union within days. Blinded by their capitalist class interests, they longed for socialism to fail. How wrong they were.
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New ‘Dictionary of the Queer International’ informs, inspires, confounds, puzzles, delights
June 21, 2021The 'Dictionary of the Queer International' is a big open tent where people from every corner of the globe can assemble, mingle, and revel in each other’s myriad ways of self-expression.
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