Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Culture
Steven Knight’s ‘A Christmas Carol’: Dickens in the age of neoliberalism
February 11, 2020This episode points out, as do the others, the ruthlessness of a society based on competition, control and confinement.
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Culture
Red Vienna: The enduring legacy of an architecture of hope
January 8, 2020Europe’s zero interest rate is being used to further hollow out its major cities as those with capital in places such as Munich, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam are borrowing at no cost and buying up apartments.
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Arts
Decade of Asian cinema crowns 2019’s Top Ten Films
December 23, 2019There is an Asian pivot in global cinema which accompanies the economic strength of the region.
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Labor
Person of the Year: The French worker on strike
December 23, 2019The government is counting on the inconvenience wearing people down, but rather than being fed up with what is sometimes called an “entitled” working class, more people are joining the cause.
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Culture
500 shows and almost nothing to watch: 2019’s top ten TV series
December 19, 2019We have gone from what used to be called the Second Golden Age of Television to what is now referred to as “Peak TV.”
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World
Macron unites all French workers—against him and his pension “reforms”
December 10, 2019Following on the heels of his tax giveaway to the rich and his changes to labor law making it easier to fire workers, Macron's pension reform requires workers to work longer to earn the same pension...
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Culture
The times they are a-changing: The Venice Biennale and late capitalism
September 11, 2019May You Live in Interesting Times is the title and organizing principle of this year’s Venice Biennale, the every-other-year festival of contemporary art.
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Culture
Elections, coups and tax evaders: Venice Film Festival wrap-up
September 10, 2019Outside, police at the Venice Film Festival massed for a climate march that saw demonstrators swarm around the red carpet demanding action on climate devastation globally.
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