Feminism has a crucial role to play in modern life, but I sometimes wish it would leave our fairy tales alone. The results of its revisionist meddling are too often unconvincing and unsatisfying.
Remember last year’s ...
12 November 2025
I sawTariq Ali while watching Democracy Now. Tariq is a British Pakistani intellectual who was discussing Palestine. Tariq Ali shouldn’t be confused with Al Tariq of the Beatnuts.
Are You Ready...
02 November 2025
To quote the blues singer Big Maybelle, “There was a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on” in 1963. It began in January, which marked the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, and President John F. Kennedy hosted a number of prominent...
30 October 2025
My community is getting ready for the annual Columbus Jewish Film Festival, but a local theater is beating it to the punch with one of the most powerful Holocaust-related documentaries you’re likely to see this year.
Among...
24 October 2025
This article firrst appeared on World Beyond War.
Kathryn Bigelow once worked with the CIA to make a movie widely ...
16 October 2025
This article first appeared on Reel Time with Richard Ades.
Two of the bravest movies I’ve seen in the past couple of years have taken aim at Iranian authoritarianism. In 2024...
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