Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
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The Reader’s second annual awards for political “achievement”
The year in politics: the Reader‘s second annual awards for political “achievement”
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The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity
Brian Springer’s family searches for an anarchist diary and buried treasure on their Missouri farm in his documentary “The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity,” screening Thursday 3/17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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The Perpetual Foolishness of David Brooks
America’s favorite pop anthropologist: As Lawrence E. Harrison explained in his book “The Central Liberal Truth,” Haiti, like most of the world’s poorest nations, suffers from a complex web of progress-resistant cultural influences. There is the influence of the voodoo religion, which spreads the message that life is capricious and planning futile. Pat Robertson: “Something […]
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He’s gone from a better place
Jerry Falwell dies and Cathleen Falsani says good riddance