Culture

Captain Max: An Extraordinary Life

Susan Block June 20, 2025

Threats Both Foreign and Domestic: The Militia

Ed Rampell June 15, 2025
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The Many Masks of the Sexless Spy

David Yearsley June 13, 2025

Still from The Invisible Doctrine.

Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Neoliberal: The Invisible Men

Ed Rampell June 1, 2025

Mrs. Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Masterpiece of Imperial Decline

Jonah Raskin May 30, 2025
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Manning Up in the Burbs

David Yearsley May 30, 2025

Christianity Has Long Revered Saints Who Would be Called ‘Transgender’ Today

Sarah Barringer May 29, 2025

Pan’s Labyrinth and the Horror of Flesh Eating

Jon Hochschartner May 29, 2025

Bred To Kill

David Yearsley May 23, 2025

The Great Gatsby at 100: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Class Consciousness Masterpiece 

Jonah Raskin May 2, 2025

San Francisco’s Inimitable Artist, Richard “Luckey” Perri 

Jonah Raskin April 25, 2025

From the West Bank with Love and Rage

Marcy Winograd April 25, 2025
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Cry Me A River: Bach’s Sustainable Hydropower

David Yearsley April 25, 2025

Walking, Waiting, Wondering, Walking Again…On Orders in Gaza

B. Nimri Aziz April 24, 2025
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Greenmantle Saves the British Empire

Matthew Stevenson April 18, 2025
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Wind Work

David Yearsley April 18, 2025
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Erzurum: The Verdun of Eastern Turkey

Matthew Stevenson March 28, 2025

Trees, Singing and Silent

David Yearsley March 28, 2025
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The Endless Russian-Turkish-Crimean Wars

Matthew Stevenson March 21, 2025

Bayeux Fever

David Yearsley March 21, 2025
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Where’s The Big Heat Now?

Stephen F. Eisenman March 14, 2025

The King and His Royal Counsellor: a Glyph

Ed Sanders March 13, 2025

“Black Earth Rising”: a Preview

David Carrier March 7, 2025
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Vaudeville Volodymyr’s Big Night

David Yearsley March 7, 2025

Looking at the Lighter Side of Life: An Interview with Martha Rosenberg

Hugh Iglarsh March 7, 2025

Tom Robbins: Kooky Fabulist, Potent Prognosticator

Fred Baumgarten March 7, 2025

Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham in No Other Land. Photograph: Antipode Films

Israel’s Demolition Derby of Palestine

Ed Rampell March 2, 2025
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Robin’s Weekend Review

David Yearsley February 28, 2025
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Mein Kulturkampf

David Yearsley February 21, 2025

Peter Schumann at 90: “I’m a Papier-Mâché Revolutionary!”

Quincy Saul February 21, 2025

Gabriele Münter: The Yellow House of the Blue Amazon

Monika Zgustova February 21, 2025
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Bowl or Bust: Cicero, Trumpius, and Lamar

David Yearsley February 14, 2025

Funding the Revolution, Beating the Banks

Ron Jacobs February 14, 2025
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Atatürk’s Ankara

Matthew Stevenson February 14, 2025

The Limits of Art

David Yearsley February 7, 2025

‘No Other Land’ Forces a Reckoning with the Israeli Occupation

Alci Rengifo February 7, 2025

Oscar Castillo Among the Tarahumara and Rarámuris

Jimmy Centeno February 7, 2025
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In the Wondrous Cabinet (No, Not Trump’s)

David Yearsley January 31, 2025

Palestine Through the Lens

Jamal Kanj January 28, 2025

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The Palestine Exception: Film as a Form of Cultural Work that Facilitates Movement Building

Ed Rampell January 26, 2025
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Cage Fight in the Capitol

David Yearsley January 24, 2025

Graphic Antifascism and a B. Traven Comic

Ron Jacobs January 24, 2025

David Lynch Exposed the Rot at the Heart of American Culture

Billy J. Stratton January 22, 2025
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Romania’s Darkness at Dawn

Matthew Stevenson January 17, 2025

Tuneful Trifecta Train Ride

Ron Jacobs January 17, 2025

“Strengthen the Breast and Open the Pipes!” Byrd, Callas and the Call to Song

David Yearsley January 17, 2025

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How Tech Billionaires Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left and Right

Will Solomon January 5, 2025
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Top of the Mormon

David Yearsley January 3, 2025

Sound Grammar: the Best Jazz Recordings of 2024

Jeffrey St. Clair January 1, 2025

Palestinians gather amid the ruins of a residential complex bombed by the Israelis in December. (Screengrab from video posted to X.)

Poetry From Today’s Frontlines

Peter Bach December 29, 2024

Steve Wasserman: Berzerkeley Heretic

Jonah Raskin December 27, 2024

There are No Palestinians: a Poem

Vijay Prashad December 27, 2024
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The Infant Revolution in Bach’s Christmas Music

David Yearsley December 20, 2024

The State and the Schoolhouse: Reviving the Dialectic and Critical Pedagogy 

David S. D’Amato December 20, 2024

Get Rid of the Commies: A Blacklisted Boyhood

Ed Rampell December 15, 2024

The Old Country New Again: Revisiting Keith Jarrett

John Kendall Hawkins December 13, 2024

Silenced Night: The Unheard Lesson of Lessons and Carols

David Yearsley December 13, 2024

Just Let Me Flip This Chromium Switch Here …The Comedy of Firesign Theater

Ron Jacobs December 9, 2024

Concert in the Colosseum: Grappling with the Soundtrack of Gladiator II

David Yearsley December 6, 2024

A Great Trump Escape on Night Trains to Armenia: To Mayerling

Matthew Stevenson December 6, 2024

Culture Wars Redo

Carla Blank December 6, 2024

Museum Skepticism Revisited: the Lessons of Venice

David Carrier December 6, 2024

Letter from London: Barry Flanagan’s Wake

Peter Bach November 27, 2024
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The Song Remains the Same: Detuning the Democratic Defeat

David Yearsley November 22, 2024

On the Maryhouse Stage: Power Politics and War

Kathy Kelly November 22, 2024

Photographer Consuelo Kanaga in Black and White: a Role Model for the Age of Trump

Jonah Raskin November 22, 2024

Mike Leigh Sings the Blues

Ed Rampell November 21, 2024
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Monument to Music in Time of War: Samuel Scheidt’s Tabulatura Nova at 400

David Yearsley November 15, 2024

Still from Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.

American Journalism on the Brink

Ed Rampell November 10, 2024
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Swing State Blues

David Yearsley November 1, 2024

An Interview With Carla Blank, Author of “A Jew in Ramallah”

Ishmael Reed November 1, 2024

Ten Facts About the Fearless Writer Sanora Babb

Iris Jamahl Dunkle October 30, 2024
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Ives at Election Time

David Yearsley October 25, 2024

The Founder Who Electrified Paris

John Kendall Hawkins October 25, 2024

Letter from London: My Week with The Artist

Peter Bach October 23, 2024

Sun King Playlists

David Yearsley October 18, 2024

San Francisco Bay Blues

Ron Jacobs October 18, 2024

Godzilla at 70: The Monster’s Warning to Humanity Remains Urgent

Amanda Kennell – Jessica McManus Warnell October 17, 2024
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In Praise of the First Piano Duets

David Yearsley October 11, 2024

Playing Hoops on the Big Rez

Seth Sandronsky October 11, 2024

The Revolution Will Not Be Podcast: Pacifica Radio at 75

Iain Boal October 4, 2024

Frederic Jameson, Sui Generis

Kenneth Surin October 4, 2024
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Handel Organ Banquet

David Yearsley October 4, 2024

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New Doc Unlocks America’s Deep, Dark Anti-Democratic Secrets by Exposing Electoral College

Ed Rampell September 29, 2024

Venetian Art and American Art

David Carrier September 27, 2024
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Kluge and the Comet: Actuarial Art in Space

David Yearsley September 20, 2024

Letter from London: Nic Wolpe and Derek Boshier

Peter Bach September 20, 2024

Nick Kyrgios: The Donald Trump of Tennis

Gabriel Kuhn September 13, 2024
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The Romantic Body Behind the Redwood Curtain

David Yearsley September 13, 2024
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Kind of Blue: Still on the Job at 65

David Yearsley September 6, 2024

Break on Through: Finding The Doors

Tony McKenna August 30, 2024

Towards A New History of Venetian Art

David Carrier August 30, 2024

Necessity Drives Us Together

Patrick Mazza August 30, 2024
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Bill-Bored and Sha-Boozing

David Yearsley August 30, 2024

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

Steve O’Keefe August 30, 2024

Bedeviled Democratic Song

David Yearsley August 23, 2024

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A Punk Rock Paean

Ron Jacobs August 17, 2024

Lewis Lapham, a Prince of American Letters and Traitor to His Class

Mark Medish August 12, 2024

Conscience of the Blues: How Howlin’ Wolf Got Caged in Oregon

Jeffrey St. Clair August 9, 2024

The 20 Best Energy Films: From Gritty Carbon-Spewing Potboilers to Nuclear Reactor Catastrophes

John K. White August 9, 2024