Once Upon A Time
Bay Area poet Fred Norman, a dedicated pacifist in Veterans for Peace, died on December 30. His anti-war poetry lives on.
tv
Civil Rights Activist Mamie Till-Mobley Takes Center Stage In the Timely Women Of the Movement
AV Club
Though the ABC limited series is gripping, it drifts too often from Mamie Till-Mobley's point of view
books
Is a Civil War Ahead?
The New Yorker
A year after the attack on the Capitol, the country is suspended between democracy and autocracy. That sense of uncertainty radically heightens the likelihood of episodic bloodletting in America, and even the risk of civil war.
film
Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up Captures the Stupidity of Our Political Era
Jacobin
The scariest thing about Don’t Look Up is that absurd as it is, it barely exaggerates. Much of our political elite are just as greedy and foolish, our media just as vapid, and our response to impending disaster exactly as mind-bogglingly irrational.
books
Thomas Piketty: The Making of a Socialist
The New York Times
What makes this noteworthy is that it comes from an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. The times are such that even honest moderates are driven to radical remedies
books
Multimillionaire Counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin’s New Book "American Marxism"
People's World
This is yet another of the recent books by conservative and libertarian writers that pretend to explain Marxism and socialism to their far right wing and pro-fascist audiences.
film
It’s a Wonderful Life vs. the FBI
Jacobin
Amid Cold War paranoia, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI set its sights on a potential source of communist subversion: Frank Capra’s Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life.
food
The Great American Chestnut Tree Revival
Modern Farmer
More than a century ago, billions of American chestnuts were wiped out by an invasive fungus. Scientists are working to restore the tree to its former glory.
poetry
We See You
Rattle
Oregon poet Angela Decker speaks calmly but insistently—“We see you”—to the “plague” of race murders.
tv
How Issa Rae and Crew Left An Indelible Mark On Television History
AV Club
While many iterations of the friendship sitcom exist, a Black woman invented the genre as we know it today, and a Black woman perfected it in Insecure
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