Archive: The Huffington Post
“Hate crimes are up. The press is being maligned. Propaganda works.”
Huffington Post, September 4, 2018
Donald Trump’s Cult of Personality
Cults of personality: the term might evoke dictators like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Kim Jong-un today. Yet cults of personality can flourish in a variety …
War and Cinema: It’s Complicated
We are living through another dramatic moment in the complex relationship of war and cinema. This time, Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is the movie at issue. It has been nominated …
The Captive: A Measure of Our Humanity
What is it like to live in captivity? How does one survive, physically and psychologically, the experience of the deprivation of freedom? Which captives are remembered, and which forgotten? Events …
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