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Film Review: “The Apprentice” — Marinating in Malignance

October 11, 2024
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It’s Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Roy Cohn that hangs in this not-very-good movie like a Rembrandt on the cracked plaster of a La Quinta suite by the airport.

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Book Review: “Breslin: Essential Writings” — Compulsive Reading

March 18, 2024
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The notion that columnists like Breslin were “deadline artists” is apt. Their task was to come up with a story idea, track it down, then give it a narrative spark, all ahead of a ticking clock as the drop-deadline for the next edition loomed.

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Visual Arts Review: Trump Likes Minimalism? Really?

February 23, 2021
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All four budgets that Donald Trump and his sycophants sent to Congress had nada for the arts and humanities.

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Book Review: “Hiding in Plain Sight” — Detailing the Malignancy of Donald Trump

June 6, 2020
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According to Sarah Kendzior, “we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

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Visual Arts Feature: Go Out There and Shred the Vote!

March 30, 2020
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Andrew Child pictures the candidates riding a skateboard, each in a slightly different pose and dressed in slightly different cool gear.

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Arts Commentary: Politics IS Performance — A Director Evaluates the Candidates

February 16, 2020
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Politicians are forced to perform on a massive stage and under the fierce gaze of a thousand lenses, yet few have real skills in that arena.

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Book Review: “The View From Flyover Country” — Sounding the Alarm

May 9, 2018
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If you want to understand what is going on in the United States today, journalist Sarah Kendzior is a good resource.

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Book Review: “I Can’t Breathe” — Humanizing the Underclass

February 5, 2018
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Follow almost any of these police brutality cases to their realpolitik conclusion and you will eventually work your way back to a monstrous truth.

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Book Review: “No Is Not Enough” — Damned by Branding

July 30, 2017
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Naomi Klein argues that the more anxious we are, the more vulnerable we are to politically opportunistic manipulation.

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Theater Commentary: Trump, Julius Caesar, and Political Farce

June 19, 2017
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If the ballyhoo around the Public Theater’s Julius Caesar is a sign of the times, then we have a lot more than Trump to fear.

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