Trump and Rahm play to white fears of Black people.
Tag: Nazi Germany
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Gary Oldman is the complete Winston Churchill, but Darkest Hour tells only half the story
Joe Wright’s biopic captures a great leader but not the people who empowered him.
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Why didn’t the Confederate battle flag go the way of the swastika?
So far the Stars and Bars have enjoyed a much gentler fate.
Posted inArts & Culture
Solidarity in the American south in “Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow”
A new exhibit looks at young African-American scholars in the Jim Crow era—and the German Jewish refugees who taught them.
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The art of making history
The Nazis’ sophisticated propaganda machine, artists’ reactions to the 2008 financial crisis: Two new exhibits of political history, then and now.
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Weekly Top Five: Funerals and snakes—the best of Fritz Lang
Weekly Top Five: Fritz Lang
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Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby is not the first movie to insult F. Scott Fitzgerald
Revisiting Frank Borzage’s Three Comrades, the only film on which F. Scott Fitzgerald received screenwriting credit