Dennis Broe
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dennis Broe
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Opinion
‘Are you now or have you ever been against genocide?’: The new repression
May 23, 2024University administrators are being called before Congress, where they must betray their own students and pledge allegiance to a new wave of repression hitting academia.
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Culture
Dark stories for dark times: The 2024 crime novel
April 29, 2024This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon was marked by the intrusion into the spine of the novels by the real-world problems and catastrophes going on around the festival.
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Culture
‘The Sympathizer’: Not sympathetic enough
April 26, 2024HBO’s The Sympathizer, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, opens with a quote: “All wars are fought twice, once on the battlefield and the second time in memory.”
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Culture
Spring global TV series preview: The good, the bad and the ‘interesting’
April 25, 2024What follows are a few global series worth watching in the coming months, along with a few that, no matter when they arrive, would not be worth watching, and a few that have at least a...
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Culture
Streaming TV biz 2024: AI, decreasing quantity, declining quality
April 16, 2024The industry way of portraying these cutbacks is that there’s now an emphasis on “quality over quantity.” But when one observes what is coming down the pike it’s hard not to see these cutbacks as simply...
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Culture
Glazergate: The director’s challenge and the Zionist riposte
April 9, 2024He had the audacity to state that his film is not just about the past but also about the present.
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Culture
The imperialist problem with ‘3 Body Problem’
April 3, 2024Netflix joins the cultural Cold War against China.
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Books
Alternative media vs. the corporate press: An illustrative case study in 1950s L.A.
March 29, 2024The battle between the people’s press and capitalist mouthpieces has been raging for decades.
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