Dreams Need No Borders
Mississippi poet Juliet Hinton writes of her dreams fulfilled, thanks to a good education.
books
Answering the Call: Strategy and Power-Building From the Bottom Up
Reviews 4 Radicals
The role of strategy in making social movements and organizations more effective, and who creates it, are the urgent questions four authors explore in three new books. Their answers will surprise you, as they surprised me.
books
Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
LSE Review of Books blog,
This history of neoliberalism focuses on how this school of thought and governance repurposed the Protestant work ethic to serve the wealthiest one percent.
film
What Do John Gotti and Donald Trump Have in Common?
Liberation Road
" Wouldn’t people have understood precisely who he was? The answer is simple: Yes, they understood who he was, and they did not care--until two things happened. First, he fell out of style. And second, the brutality of the man became undeniable."
food
Does Chicken Soup Really Help When You’re Sick? A nutrition specialist explains what’s behind the beloved comfort food
The Conversation
Chicken soup as a therapy can be traced back to 60 A.D. army surgeon whose five-volume medical encyclopedia was consulted by early healers for more than a millennium. But the origins of chicken soup go back thousands of years to ancient China.
tv
‘Fargo’ Is Really About One Line From the Original Coen Brothers Movie, Noah Hawley Says
The Wrap
The creator of "Fargo" explains why every season of his crime drama is about money, Republicans and the “American woman’s experience”
poetry
Iowa Requiem, 2018
Peter Carroll’s visit to Perry, Iowa gives no warning of sudden violence that occurred there this week, except for feelings of despair that might afflict a troubled young man with nowhere to go.
books
Are We in the Grip of an ‘American Cultural Revolution’?
Current Affairs
Reviewing the new book by Christopher Rufo, architect of the right’s crusade against “critical race theory.”
food
The Vegan School Lunch
Ambrook Research
In the popular imagination, vegan school lunch may seem like the exclusive provenance of big cities like New York, but the tide appears to have shifted significantly in much of the country.
tv
Apple TV+’s “The Buccaneers” Ruins Edith Wharton and Fails History
Autostraddle
This approach to period pieces does not only erase historical racism and homophobia. It also erases our joy. Accurate historical representation and less trauma in stories about marginalized people are not opposing goals.
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