Between the lines of intellectual jargon, Tom Stoppard’s play is about the loss of innocence.
Tag: Socialism
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The end of Rahm Emanuel’s rule means that the center may no longer hold in Chicago
Our mayor is on the ropes, and with him the centrist brand of politics aggressively practiced by Emanuel over the last 25 years.
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Rapper Vic Mensa: Chicago’s newest Black Panther?
At this past weekend’s “anti-bait-truck” shoe giveaway, the 25-year-old rapper declared himself a revolutionary.
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Boots Riley on the ‘regular’ revolutionary messages of his radical debut film
An interview with the Chicago native, an artist and activist, about the politics of his sci-fi comedy with radical left and anti-capitalist messages.
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Shh, don’t tell the NRA! American Socialist is coming to Chicago
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs is screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center Friday through Thursday
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Daniel Biss on Abu Ghraib, how to resist the urge to check out at the words ‘pension crisis,’ and what he’s learned from Michael Madigan
The Illinois gubernatorial candidate talks about the arc of progressive politics and what’s required to bring change to the state capitol.
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Chapo Trap House and the burden of the ‘dirtbag left’
The political comedy podcast has become a flash point in a larger fight between mainstream liberals and leftists.
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Beyond the ‘Bernie bro’: Socialism’s diverse new youth brigade
Inspired by Sanders, outraged by Trump, and betrayed by the neoliberal establishment, the reinvigorated Democratic Socialists of America set out to paint the town red.
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Walter Benn Michaels on how liberals still love diversity and ignore inequality
A conversation with UIC professor Walter Benn Michaels, whose controversial 2006 polemic The Trouble with Diversity now looks prescient.
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A Trump delegate born in Uzbekistan stands by her man
“When you look at a man of that stature, it makes you feel safe, protected, like he’ll take care of you,” Lora Drobetsky says.
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Teen poets of Louder Than a Bomb—beware of groupthink
Changing the climate through teenage poetry.
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What moved LBJ to target poverty?
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty was more than a play for votes.
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It puts the lotion on its skin
Dan on disparate libidos, an unstable ex, and a porn-jealous GF.
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Broken socialism scene
Endorsements might not matter too much anymore, but coverage does.