“Go Figure,” a poem about war and peace
"Gotta operate to heal, incarcerate the bastille, make it schools to jobs, not the iron heal. Gotta make it real."
"Persians" theater review: War is Hades
"Outrage, once ripened, yields a bumper crop of retribution."
"Sarajevo": Saga of 1914 joins ranks of great pacifist films
Like Oliver Stone in JFK, Sarajevo's director Andreas Prochaska and writer Martin Ambrosch have created a counter-narrative to the official version of why the archduke was shot.
French culture panel mulls Picasso studio future
Picasso worked in the Left Bank studio in the Hotel de Savoie for 19 years, and it is where he painted his famed anti-war opus "Guernica" in 1937.
The war on film
As the generation who fought in World War II dwindles in numbers, we are losing crucial first-hand testimony of the heroic struggles to defeat fascism.
“Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan”
"Empire's Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan," by Klassen and Greg Albo, asks the question, "Why did the Canadian government go to war in Afghanistan in 2001?"
Hollywood doesn't recognize complexity of black life
This should have been the year that black directors dominated the Oscars.
Book review: Moshe Lewin's "The Soviet Century"
About Stalinism, Lewin strongly makes the point that while Stalin's tenure from the mid 1920s to the early 1950s represented a significant portion of Soviet history it did not represent all of it.
"How Can We Make Peace Sexy?"
Inspired by Hollywood movies that glorify violence, a poet asks, "How do we make peace sexy?"
Lincoln: principles and politics
In this 150th anniversary year of the Emancipation Proclamation, we are fortunate to have Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals to help us understand Abraham Lincoln.
