Category: Culture
Pascal Robert: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Essentialism, and the Threat of the Black Cultural Tour Guide
by Pascal Robert | May 6, 2013 | Books, Media(Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer for The Atlantic, wants his blackness both ways, the author says.) There are certain black folk in the media whose roles have roots in history going back to Booker T. Washington. These folk are profoundly damaging to the sensibilities of the black masses, particularly the black poor. That person is the […]
Roger Nicholson, Dan Bidondi and Dealing with People Who Don’t Believe Facts of Boston Bombings
by John Stoehr | May 3, 2013 | MediaRoger Nicholson shamed an Infowars “reporter” for believing the FBI caused the Boston Marathon bombing. That might be the best we can do with people who don’t believe in facts. Journalists face a tough choice when it comes to covering conspiracy theorists. Give them attention and risk encouraging their delusions of grandeur, or ignore them […]
Michael Marder: What Horse Meat Tells Us about Ourselves
by Michael Marder | May 1, 2013 | Culture(If Friedrich Nietzsche made “You are what you eat” the cornerstone of his thinking, what would he have thought of reports of horse meat being found in European ground beef?: shardcore.org) All of us have heard an age-old piece of wisdom, “I am what I eat.” As late as the 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche took […]
On the GOP’s Moribund Moderates
by Michael Lind | May 1, 2013 | BooksBetween the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies the asteroid belt, which consists of the pieces of a potential planet that never formed because gravitational forces tore its components apart. What remains are chunks of rock and metal that occasionally flame out in the earth’s atmosphere as falling stars. In Rule and Ruin: The Downfall […]
Gene Seymour: ‘Gimme the Loot’ Makes Us Feel Less Alone
by Gene Seymour | Apr 26, 2013 | Culture, Media(Gimme the Loot stars Ty Hickson and Tashania Washington.) The night after my wife and I saw Gimme the Loot at Manhattan’s IFC Center last month, a dancer friend of our dancer son told us a story about his walk home one recent evening in a semi-fringe Brooklyn neighborhood where a teenager jumped in front of […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety