Becoming Educated
Vox Populi
The grief of today’s wars, North Carolina poet Joanne Durham reminds us, falls heaviest on the children of the victims.
poetry
Safe Space
Radical Teacher
New Jersey teacher and poet, Carol Smith explains the hazards of racist content, subtle, accidental, sometimes deliberate.
books
The Illiberalism at America’s Core
The New Republic
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.
film
‘Lyd’: A Must-See Palestinian Documentary
Screen Hub
'Lyd' is the story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world – and what it could have become.
food
The Refillery Is Coming for Your Grocery Store Routine
Taste
At package-free stores you bring your own container, weigh it, and fill it with the amount of rice or walnuts or Peanut M&Ms that you want to take home. In the bigger context of the zero-waste movement, do these refilleries actually mean anything?
tv
A Man in Full Review: David E. Kelley Tackles Tom Wolfe
AV Club
Netflix’s A Man In Full lacks Wolf’s sardonic bite, insider knowledge of privilege, and an outsider’s disdain for American institutions and the egomaniacs who lead them
books
Libby Frank Presente! – Meet This Extraordinary Activist for Middle East Peace in a New Book!
Portside
Jewish activists who support the cause of the Palestinians will take particular interest in her growth from a girl who grew up in a traditional Jewish family, active in the young Zionist movement, to a fierce fighter for peace in the Middle East....
books
The Crisis of Classical Studies: On Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome”
Los Angeles Review of Books
This book highlights both the strengths and the weaknesses of classical studies at the present time.
film
‘I Am Gitmo’: An Enhanced Interrogation of an American Shame
Truthdig
In “I Am Gitmo,” French director Philippe Diaz recreates the torture rooms inside the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.
tv
Netflix Shares Teaser for the New Adaptation of Gabriel García Marquez’s Masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude
AV Club
Netflix's Spanish-language adaptation of One Hundred Years Of Solitude premieres later this year
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