Taylor Dorrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Taylor Dorrell
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Culture
An American Communist classical playlist: The Composers’ Collective on Spotify
March 15, 2024In the 1930s, left-wing composers rallied together to make music for the working class. Their legacy and music has been largely forgotten.
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Culture
Heaven divided: Fear and loathing in West Germany
February 27, 2024Wim Wenders' supposedly apolitical film Wings of Desire depicts West Germany as the reverse image of a capitalist utopia.
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Opinion
Revolutionary patience: Election year with Lenin
January 24, 2024In an election year like 2024, the 20th century Bolshevik revolutionary holds more insights for us today than one might expect.
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Culture
Meridel Le Sueur’s ‘Proletarian Literature and the Middle West’
November 14, 2023Here, published online for the first time, is Le Sueur’s speech to the 1935 American Writers Congress.
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News
Ta’Kiya Young, 21-year-old pregnant woman, is latest Black Ohioan killed by police
October 2, 2023Accused of shoplifting, she was murdered as she sat in her car outside a Kroger grocery store.
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News
Republican Vivek Ramaswamy brings the anti-China Cold War crusade to Ohio
September 29, 2023Ramaswamy’s red-baiting, hyper-capitalist ideology is becoming more common among Ohio’s rising political right wing.
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Culture
Anarchism vs. Marxism: The politics of Boots Riley’s ‘I’m a Virgo’
August 10, 2023It’s a fight as old as Marxism itself.
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News
The Ohio woman who beat the Red Scare blacklists
April 10, 2023Anna Hass Morgan’s legacy, which has been largely wiped from local memory in Columbus, should be restored to its proper place.
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