V.I. Lenin proclaimed: “For us, the cinema is the most important of the arts.” The leader of the Russian Revolution said this around 1922, the year Benito Mussolini’s blackshirts rose to power in Italy, and later decreed: “Film work...
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06 May 2022
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, Senate ...
05 May 2022
Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees,...
05 May 2022
At a certain point, as I was reading the book I’d recently been sent, a strange transformation began occurring: Gradually, as I moved ever deeper into it, I wasn’t so much reading as quietly singing a hymn . . . participating in a...
03 May 2022
When I ran for mayor of Buffalo, New York, last year, my past-due parking tickets became a major reason for reduced favorability among voters. When Stacy Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, there was a lot of talk in the...
03 May 2022
The latest stab at reviving nuke power is mocked by the actual reactors.
Today 93 are allegedly operable in the US, more than 400 worldwide….including the 15 in Putin’s Ukraine crosshairs, plus four lethal corpses at Chernobyl....
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