Patrick Chura
LATEST ARTICLES BY Patrick Chura
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Politics
A century ago, Zitkála-Šá exposed an orgy of atrocities against Native Americans
July 17, 2023In 1923, a Dakota-born writer-activist traveled through Oklahoma to investigate abuses against the Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes. What she found was appalling.
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Culture
‘The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist 75 Years Later’: A review
June 7, 2023Throughout this volume, there’s never a doubt that Ceplair writes with honesty, fairness, empathy, and deep knowledge.
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Culture
‘The Lonesome Vigilante’: John Steinbeck explains Tucker Carlson
May 10, 2023“It’s not how white men fight” is the opposite of truth and only confirms Carlson’s raging racism.
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Culture
Leftist ‘life hacks’ from Mike Gold’s farewell columns in ‘People’s Daily World’
February 1, 2023In the 1930s, he was a firebrand agitator writing in the pages of the Daily Worker. By the era of the ‘New Left,’ Mike Gold was at it again on the West Coast.
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Culture
‘Joe Hill, Alive as You and Me’ unites and inspires in Akron
November 16, 2022Now is a good time to talk and learn about Joe Hill, as we did on a November evening in Akron.
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Culture
Darko Suvin’s fiery poetry and ‘Insubordinate Essays’
June 30, 2022In 2016, at the age of 86, Darko Suvin did something that would have taxed the energies of someone half his age.
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Books
‘Border Crossings’: Thirteen stories about covert journeys in service to Portuguese freedom
February 4, 2022
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Culture
Anti-fascist lessons from a blacklisted Jewish Communist
January 6, 2022With hate crimes on the rise and democracy in crisis, the literature we study in schools has new purpose.
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