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Carine Topal Pedestal Magazine
Poet Carine Topal finds resistance even in the most crushingly authoritarian society.

Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of the Second Sex

Naomi Simmons-Thorne Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Reviewer Simmons-Thorne this book aims to show "how de Beauvoir and black feminists conceive women’s oppression disparately and to criticize how de Beauvoir’s conception marginalizes Black women and other women of color in feminist thought."

The Mediterranean Diet Is a Lie

Alessandro Ford Politico
The Mediterranean diet has become a mishmash of hyperbole, half-truths and howlers, stirred together for political and commercial ends.

In Memory of the Forgotten

Suzanne Cleary The Odds
Poet Suzanne Cleary sneaks a peek into the production of art in a theocratic society.

Bob Dylan Biopic and the Origin Story of an Electrified Maggie’s Farm

Peter Dreier Common Dreams
The film, A Complete Unknown, accurately portrays Dylan's two sides—a brilliant creative genius as a songwriter/poet and a narcissist who used and discarded people on behalf of his ambition. It tells a good story, but certainly not all the stories.

28 Anti-Fascist Films

Kurt Stand Stansbury Forum
“What is most important is not what people with unbridled power can impose on us, but rather on what we can do as human beings, as political actors.”

Farming in the Dark

Diana Kruzman Ambrook Research
Chemist Feng Jiao and Robert Jinkerson, a specialist in artificial photosynthesis, contend that their system — known as “electro-agriculture” — could convert electricity into chemical energy with four times the efficiency of photosynthesis.