Subjects Archives: Culture

Every intellectual in exile is mutilated, wrote Theodor W. Adorno in California during World War II.

The Copa America and the Euro Cup are coming to an end and deserve a reflection, even if this is just a grain of sand in a wave that has moved multitudes on Planet Soccer.

The continent’s most important national team football tournament was overshadowed by serious incidents on and off the field. Many point the finger at the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) and the host country, the United States.

The ‘billionaire raj’ of the reform period has emerged to be far more unequal than the ‘British Raj’.

Laws like this have a chilling effect on teachers’ free speech. It remains to be seen whether New Hampshire’s win in federal court will become a bellwether for democracy throughout the country.

Located on the outskirts of Biruaca, in Apure state, Nacidos para Vencer con Chávez [Born to Triumph with Chávez] is a women-led commune in a rural context that has a long history of patriarchal oppression. This fledgling commune seized upon Chávez’s idea as a way forward in difficult times, attempting to build community and increase production, while connecting with other communes through the Communard Union.

Paul Robeson, speaking of the scientific achievements of the West which have formed the bedrock of its claim to supremacy, posed a question for the 20th century: “having found the key, has Western man—Western bourgeois man—sufficient strength left to turn it in the lock?”

On Isla Grande, Afro-Colombian residents discuss the urgent need for a sustainable electricity plant. Their efforts echo President Petro’s push for solar energy, with the aim of addressing broader regional goals of sustainable development. Yet, development and climate adaption require funding–funding that is instead going to war, with global military spending nearing $3 trillion annually.

As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party.

One can hate or admire any of the gentlemen now involved [in the push for peace in Ukraine]; I would endorse Satan himself if he could help end this God-awful war and move towards the urgently-needed peace in the area—and elsewhere.

“Little Kites” program introduced in public schools in 2018 has prepared over 1.2 million students for the future with a sense of community and sharing.

Election results in France bring joy but also reveal a difficult road ahead.

Coporo Indigena is an Indigenous community in Apure state that has resisted settler violence, displacement from their land… and now the U.S. blockade.

From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion—a reality obscured by Western propaganda.

Our age cohorts don’t tell the full story.

How can we trace the wounds of colonialism in the art historical record?

There are roughly four proximate features of capitalist poverty.

Fifty years after Nixon was driven out of the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with the Watergate war criminal that presidents can commit any crime they want.

Canadian tobacco companies are actively trying to capture a new generation of life-long, nicotine-addicted customers.

A collection of more than a dozen people’s history stories from July 4th beyond 1776. The stories include July 4th anniversaries such as when slavery was abolished in New York (1827), Frederick Douglass’s speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852), the Reconstruction era attack on a Black militia that led to the Hamburg Massacre (1876), protest of segregation at an amusement park in Baltimore (1963), and more.