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Johann Gottlieb Fichte undertook a pure search for truth. He also distrusted international markets. Does that make him an ancestor to anti-globalization activists?
An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.
A painter who never lost sight of life’s being perpetually in transition.
Martín Adan’s The Cardboard House; José Manuel Prieto’s Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia
All wars have their bards, and Mexico’s ongoing narco wars are no exception.
Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine; Sophia Coppola’s The Bling Ring; Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station
Afraid your record of sexual misconduct will ruin your electoral prospects? No problem!
How did a president beloved by Jews come to be regarded as an anti-Semite who refused to save them from the Nazis?
Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy renders the composer’s world and life in the Soviet Union through dance at American Ballet Theatre.
