Category: Culture

Counting Asians
by Setsuko Winchester | Apr 16, 2018 | Culture, Immigration, PoliticsThe Olympics have come to a close, and in their wake I’ve been thinking about a stubborn phenomenon that was illustrated most recently by the flak a New York Times columnist named Bari Weiss received after tweeting: “Immigrants get the job done,” together with a picture of Mirai Nagasu, the U.S. ice skater who won […]

A Wolff at the Door
by Mort Rosenblum | Feb 14, 2018 | Books, Culture, Legal Affairs, PoliticsIt seems pretty clear watching the reaction to Michael Wolff’s neutron bomb, Fire and Fury: We Americans, collectively, have gone out of our flipping minds. How can we let this fake president continue to personify us? The book, if hardly a literary masterwork, spills enough beans to bury Donald Trump, his clown-car inner circle, and […]

Acclaimed Black Cinema: On Moonlight, Fences, and Get Out
by Cyrus Cassells | Feb 5, 2018 | Culture, MediaThe underdog Best Picture triumph at the 2017 Oscars of Barry Jenkins’s deeply affecting Moonlight, which already feels like a contemporary classic, over the lightweight, plucky, Hollywood fantasia La La Land, might be seen as a weather vane of sorts, an upbeat sign of the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and the genuine […]

An Editorial Board Finds its Voice
by Ramona Naddaff | Sep 12, 2017 | Books, PoliticsOur Dishonest President The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board Introduction by Davan Maharaj and Nicholas Goldberg Berkeley: Heyday, 2017 On January 27, 2017, the Urban Dictionary added a new word: “Trumpion: A die-hard follower of Donald Trump.” The Trumpions loyally follow their president in word and in deed, defending his ever-changing manipulations of alternative reality […]

Fake News was Hallmark of MSM Long Before Trump and Twitter
by Jim Sleeper | Sep 10, 2017 | Media, PoliticsEver since the current occupant of the White House blamed mainstream journalists for generating fake news, some of us have countered by blaming social media and armies of trolls and bots (robotic tweets). But it’s as silly to blame social media for causing fake news as it would be to blame the internal combustion engine […]
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