Thursday, September 28, 2017

Resources for September 28, 2017

Bamboozled (USA: Spike Lee, 2000) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

"Blade Runner 2049’s New Making-Of Featurette Gives You a Sneak Peek Inside the Long-Awaited Sequel." Open Culture (June 22, 2017)

"Jared Leto Stars in a New Prequel to Blade Runner 2049: Watch It Free Online." Open Culture (August 31, 2017)




Chomsky, Noam. Understanding Power. Edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel. The New Press, 2002. [I've read Noam Chomsky's book 'Understanding Power' twice and I'm now listening to it in audio form on my commutes - it is one of the pivotal books in my lifelong learning journey and I highly recommend it for beginning the process of understanding how power works in our society - the book truly lives up to its title.]

Koski, Genvieve, et al. "Baywatch / Brady Bunch (Pt. 1)." The Next Picture Show (May 30, 2017)

---. "Baywatch / Brady Bunch (Pt. 2)." The Next Picture Show (June 1, 2017)

Richardson. Reed. "Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens." FAIR (September 28. 2017)

Whitehead, John W. "Patriots and Protesters Should Take a Knee for the Constitution." Counterpunch (September 27, 2017)











Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Resources for September 27, 2017

Blum, William. "A Brief History of U.S. Interventions: 1945 - 1999." (Excerpt from Foreign and Military Policy: posted on Nicky González Yuen's De Anza College, Political Science Department page)

Bonilla, Yarimar. "Puerto Ricans Call for Aid Amid Catastrophe: 'We're American Citizens. We Can't Be Left to Die.'" Democracy Now (September 26, 2017) ["Six days after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, 3.4 million U.S. citizens in the territory remain without adequate food, water and fuel. But as the massive crisis became clear over the weekend, President Trump failed to weigh in, instead lashing out at sports players who joined in protest against racial injustice. It took the president five full days to respond, with comments that appeared to blame the island for its own misfortune. We examine the dire situation in Puerto Rico with Yarimar Bonilla, Puerto Rican scholar, who wrote in The Washington Post, "Why would anyone in Puerto Rico want a hurricane? Because someone will get rich." And we speak with Puerto Ricans in New York who have been unable to reach loved ones after nearly a week."]

Bradley, S.A. "My Ride's Here: Remembering George A. Romero." Hellbent for Horror #48 (July 27, 2017)

Dogtooth (Greece: Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009: 94 mins) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Economou, Vassilis. "Mademoiselle Paradis: Never Trust What You See." Cineuropa (September 11, 2017)

Fichera, Blake and James Hancock. "John Carpenter, Horror Master." Wrong Reel #272 (May 29, 2017)

Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jim Jarmusch." Cinemaxis (December 10, 2013)

Judd-Lam, Sarah. "The Handmaid's Tale: A Timely Indictment of Conservative Religion." Ethos (July 24, 2017)

Puerto Rico Syllabus: Essential tools for critical thinking about the Puerto Rican debt crisis (Ongoing Archive)

T., Sarah. "'Language Orthodoxy,' the Adichie Wars, and Western Feminism's Enduring Myopia." The Rumpus (April 6, 2017)

Vizcarrondo, Sara. "The Legend of Pat Tillman: Deconstructing a Military Myth." International Documentary Association (August 20, 2010)









Monday, September 25, 2017

Resources for September 25, 2017




Cade, Octavia. "Women, Monstrosity and Horror: Gynaehorror by Erin Harrington." Strange Horizons (September 18, 2017)

D'anna, Becky, Dave Eves and James Hancock. "Ingmar Bergman and the Trilogy." Wrong Reel #273 (May 2017)

Farrell, Henry. "Revolutionary Possibility." Jacobin (September 2017) ["China Miéville’s October depicts the transformative hope of revolution."]

Hancock, James and Matthias van der Roest. "Don and Clint." Wrong Reel #321 (September 2017)

Jones, Josh. How Can We Know What is True? And What Is BS? Tips from Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman & Michael Shermer." Open Culture (September 22, 2017)

Subissati, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Man Seeking Woman: Audition (1999)." Faculty of Horror #50 (May 26, 2017) ["Takashi Miike created one of the most infamous, beloved and decisive films when he made Audition: a story of people looking for love in all the wrong places that has influenced a generation of filmmakers and terrified audiences all over the world. Andrea and Alex take a deep dive into the international and seemingly universal fears of love, intimacy and what it means to be a 'good girl.'"]

T., Sarah. "The Lens Magnifies, The Mirror Reflects: What Photos From the Race War Shows Us About Ourselves." The Rumpus (September 25, 2017)

Zirin, Dave. "Take the Knee: Athletes Unite in Historic Protest Against Racism & Police Brutality, Defying Trump." Democracy Now (September 25, 2017) ["In the biggest display of athletic defiance in years, football teams across the nation protested President Donald Trump after he attacked the NFL, NBA and some of their most popular athletes for daring to draw attention to racism and police violence. We look at the unprecedented role of political activism among athletes under the Trump presidency and the politics of playing the national anthem at games. We speak with Dr. Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of several books, including "The Revolt of the Black Athlete," reissued this year for its 50th anniversary edition. He was the architect of the 1968 Olympic Project for Human Rights and is a longtime staff consultant with the San Francisco 49ers. We’re also joined by Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation magazine, who notes that playing the national anthem before games has a long and hallowed history that goes back to the days of "Jersey Shore" and Justin Bieber."]








Sense 8 (Netflix: J. Michael Straczynski, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 2015 - )




Sense 8 (Netflix: J. Michael Straczynski, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 2015 - )


Series Description: Eight strangers around the globe find themselves connected -- first by a violent vision, then by their shared ability to connect with one another's thoughts and actions, and finally by the urgent need to find out what happened and why. Their need to know goes beyond simple curiosity -- as they pursue answers, a mysterious organization hunts them down, intent on destroying them. The intense thriller is the first foray into television (or, more accurately, Netflix) for renowned filmmakers Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski ("The Matrix Reloaded"), who created the series with J. Michael Straczynski ("Thor"). The international cast includes veteran actors known to U.S. audiences, like Daryl Hannah ("Kill Bill") and Naveen Andrews ("Lost"), and others well-known in their home countries, like German actor Max Riemelt and Doona Bae of South Korea. In keeping with the global premise of the series, shooting takes place all over the world, including London, Reykjavik, Nairobi and Mumbai.


Adams, John Joseph, Tobias Buckell and Sam J. Miller. "Is Sense8 Too Radical for Critics?" Wired (July 6, 2015)

Arrant, Chris. "J. Michael Straczynski Discusses Collaborating With Wachowskis For Netflix’s Sense8." Spinoff (October 30, 2013)

Carriaga, Jessica. "8 Awesome Things We Learned About the Making of Sense8." Indiewire (August 13, 2015)

Cloud Atlas (Germany/USA/Hong Kong/Singapore: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 2012) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Gieben, Brian E. "The Wachowskis’ Sense8 Is the Philip K. Dick Adaptation We Always Wanted." io9 (June 23, 2015)

Grozdanovic, Nikola. "The Wachowskis Nonsensical Sense8 Is The First Major Slip For Netflix In 2015." IndieWire (June 11, 2015)

Kornhaber, Spencer. "Sense8: The Premise is Not Enough." The Atlantic (June 5, 2015)

Light, Claire. "Sense8 and the Failure of Global Imagination." The Nerds of Color (June 10, 2015)

Lightwave, Noble. "Sense8: Better Violence." Signsofseduction (June 12, 2015)

The Matrix (USA: Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 1999) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Miller, Liz Shannon. "No More Learning Curve, As Lana Wachowski Revs the Show Forward." IndieWire (April 26, 2017)

---. "Sense8 Co-Creator J. Michael Straczynski on How Netflix's Show Changed Him, and Could Change Television." Indiewire (June 5, 2015)

Ricard, Sarah. "13 Questions about Netflix's New Series Sense8 Answered: Co-Creator J. Michael Straczynski Explains All." Rotten Tomatoes (June 3, 2015)

Segade, Alexandro. "We Belong: On Sense 8." Art Forum (August 24, 2017)

Stanley, Alessandra. "Review: Sense8, the Wachowskis’ Netflix Series, Connects Young and Cute." The New York Times (June 4, 2015)

Townes, Carimah. "Why Netflix Shouldn’t Care If White Men Watch Its Newest Sci-Fi Series." Think Progress (July 8, 2015)

Wachowski, Lana. "What it Means to Be Transgendered." Women and Hollywood (October 24, 2012)




In a year in which we have had to pull back and not be so physically present in the lives of others I could think of no better series to watch for the first time or to revisit than the Wachowski Sisters 'Sense8' (Netflix: 2015 - 2018). As I reflect on this transformative show that reshaped my long meditation on empathy, relationships, connectedness, love and freedom, I wonder if it was somehow brought into our lives to help us deal with an impending time of socially distanced reality and to evoke a strong sense of the importance of truly seeing & accepting people as they are (not just as we perceive them to be). A truly remarkable show that opens anyone to the possibilities of humanity, no matter their background or perspective, as long as they are willing to open themselves to its optimistic narrative (in a time when our culture celebrates the cynical and cruel - think of the majority of shows). How do we stay connected in these times? How do we make authentic connections? How do we see others as they truly are? How do we deal with the fear of the other? How do we love others in ways that are not controlling? (MB - December 12, 2020)

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” -- Frida Kahlo



















Friday, September 22, 2017

Resources for September 22, 2017

Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "The Untouchables." Junk Food Cinema (May 26, 2017)

Cassidy, Brendan and Vince Leo. "A Quiet Passion, Raw." InSession Film (May 26, 2017)

Cribbs, John, Chris Funderberg and Martin Kessler. "Shohei Imamura." Flixwise (September 19, 2017) ["Martin Kessler is joined by Chris Funderberg and John Cribbs of thepinksmoke.com to discuss the films of two-time Palme d’Or award-wining director Shohei Imamura. They talk about his dark subject matter, his bleak point of view, the phases of his career, and his wild sense of humour. They discuss how Imamura has been handled by critics, compare him to New German Cinema, Luis Buñuel, and discuss why comparing him to other Japanese filmmakers may be a misleading."]






Kressel, Matthew. "Why Blade Runner is More Relevant Than Ever." TOR (September 20, 2017)

McCormack, J.W. "The Past is a Foreign Agent: John le Carré's Cold War fiction stalks a pitiless twenty-first century." The Baffler (September 19, 2017)

Sessions, David. "The Radical Hopes of the Russian Revolution." The New Republic (September 20, 2017)

Smith, Sarah Adina and Jonako Donley. "Buster's Mal Heart." Film School Radio (May 26, 2017) ["Buster’s Mal Heart is a bold thriller peppered with dark humor and interlocking mystery, an eccentric mountain man is on the run from the authorities, surviving the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes in a remote community. Regularly calling into radio talk shows — where he has acquired the nickname “Buster” — to rant about the impending Inversion at the turn of the millennium, he is haunted by visions of being lost at sea, and memories of his former life as a family man. Buster (Rami Malek) was once Jonah, a hard-working husband and father whose job as the night-shift concierge at a hotel took its toll on his psyche and, consequently, his marriage to the sensitive Marty (Kate Lyn Sheil) — until a chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter (DJ Qualls) changed the course of their lives forever. As the solitary present-day Buster drifts from house to house, eluding the local sheriff at every turn, we gradually piece together the events that fractured his life and left him alone on top of a snowy mountain, or perhaps in a small rowboat in the middle of a vast ocean — or both, in this visceral mind bender that will provoke discussion long after it turns your world upside-down. Director and writer Sarah Adina Smith and Producer Jonako Donley join us to talk about her wildly entertaining tale."]

Travers, Ben. "The Deuce: HBO’s Outstanding Porn Drama Is David Simon’s Most Absorbing Series Since The Wire." IndieWire (September 4, 2017) ["An instantly immersive experience, "The Deuce" delves into 1971 New York City with an eye for the overlooked denizens who built an American empire."]





Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Resources for September 19, 2017




Bender, Abbey. "Cleaning Out the Closet: Fassbinder's Fashion." Film Comment (May 16, 2014)

Bloom, Livia. "Courage of Conviction: A Conversation with Ida Director Pawel Pawlikowski." Filmmaker (May 5, 2017)

Dargis, Manohla and A.O. Scott. "One Nation Under a Movie Theater? It's a Myth." The New York Times (September 7, 2017)  ["Hollywood wants us to think that its films are for everyone, but our critics say that was never true. Still, they see a way forward."]

Guynes, Sean. "Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones." World Literature Today (September 2017)

Handyside, Fiona. "Going Gothic: Anticipating Sophia Coppola's The Beguiled." Another Gaze (June 11, 2017)

Hart, David and Miranda Sajdak. "San Andreas and the Death of a Child." Pop Culture Case Study #237 (May 27, 2017)

Jamison, Leslie. "Short Term Feelings: What Hurts About Short Term 12." Los Angeles Review of Books (January 4, 2014)

Middents, Jeffrey. "Birdman or Fantasy Hopscotch, Not Played Very Often." Mediatico (September 18, 2017)

Nordling, Emily. "A Definitive Collection that Defies Definition: Le Guin’s Hainish Novels & Stories." TOR (September 18, 2017)

Prickett, Sarah Nicole.  "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream." Art Forum (September 1, 2017)

Repino, Robert. "Sex, Love, and Humanism: Reimagining Religion in #gods." TOR (September 11, 2017)

Sragow, Michael. "The Shape of Corruption." Current (September 18, 2017)








Monday, September 18, 2017

Resources for September 18, 2017


"A Master List of 1,300 Free Courses From Top Universities: 45,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures." Open Culture (September 18, 2017)

Cassidy, Brendan, J.D. Duran and Richard Newby. "It, Top 3 Stephen King Adaptation Scenes, Willow." InSession Film #238 (September 13, 2017)

Get Out (USA: Jordan Peele, 2017) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Hancock, James and Tom Horan. "We All Float Down Here." Wrong Reel #317 (September 2017)

"Jennifer Lawrence: Mother! Is an Allegory." Merriam-Webster (September 11, 2017)

Jhally, Sut and Roger Waters. "The Occupation of the American Mind: Documentary Looks at Israel's PR War in the United States." Democracy Now (September 14, 2017) ["We continue our conversation with legendary British musician Roger Waters, founding member of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is the narrator of a recent documentary titled "The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States." We air clips from the film and speak to Roger Waters and Sut Jhally, professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts and founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation, which produced the documentary."]

Mobarak, Jared. "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women: TIFF 2017 Review." The Film Stage (September 10, 2017)

"Pharma CEO Afraid Americans Will Embrace Bernie's Single Payer Plan." The David Parkman Show (September 15, 2017)

Shambu, Girish. "Gold." The Cinephiliacs #93 (May 21, 2017) ["If the cinephilia of lining up on small streets of Paris and New York for obscure rare prints of art films and the auteurs of Hollywood to appreciate the wind in the trees has died with Susan Sontag, what has replaced it? This is one of many questions asked by blogger Girish Shambu in his book The New Cinephilia. In this final report from SCMS, Girish discusses his childhood in India and how he became interested in not just film but the kind of critical discourses it creates, and how he sees himself functioning within that world. The two talk about the opportunities and challenges that cinephilia faces in our current moment, both in terms of the expanding definition of media and its relation to politics. Finally, they turn their eyes toward the ever nebulous group of coy German filmmakers known as the Berlin School, and in particular, Thomas Arslan's Klondike-trekking western Gold with Phoenix star Nina Hoss."]














Friday, September 15, 2017

The Love Witch (USA: Anna Biller, 2016)




The Love Witch (USA: Anna Biller, 2016: 120 mins)

Anderson-Moore, Oakley. "The Love Witch: If You Aren't Using Style as Substance, You're Doing it Wrong." No Film School (November 16, 2016)

Cleaver, Sarah Kathryn, Cathy Lomax and Mary Wild. "Fashion Films Episode 7: Make-up & Magic with Cathy Lomax." Projections (May 1, 2019) ["Sarah and Mary welcome special guest artist, gallerist, PHD scholar and former make-up artist Cathy Lomax to talk about make-up, style and surface in Anna Biller’s extraordinary 2016 film The Love Witch. The three discuss their favourite make-up moments in film, styles of female power and Lomax’s film diaries. "]

Ehrlich, David. "The Love Witch: Anna Biller’s Technicolor Throwback Is a Spellbinding Feminist Delight." IndieWire (November 8, 2016)

Erbland, Kate. "5 Tips For Making a Badass Feminist Movie From the Director of The Love Witch." IndieWire (November 18, 2016)

Gibson, Marion. "The Love Witch: A film about the perversities of desire that will soon be a cult feminist classic." The Conversation (March 8, 2017)

Heron, Christopher. "A Woman Constructing Her World: Anna Biller Interview (The Love Witch)." The Seventh Art (April 5, 2017) ["American independent filmmaker Anna Biller discusses her latest film, The Love Witch (2016), which investigates gender and psychology through the prisms of love and witchcraft. Following Viva (2007) and her preceding short films, the aesthetic of The Love Witch is a bricolage of different formalist reference points found across the writing, performance, sets, music and more. Through this unique world building, Biller explores the underlying narcissistic personality of the complex main character, Elaine, as well as a means to explore notions of fantasy, desire, patriarchal structures, craft, and meta-level symbolism, among its many themes. We discuss these components of the film, its reception, critical misunderstandings of cinema history, and the realities of making films as a woman."]

Kenny, Glenn. "The Love Witch." Roger Ebert (November 11, 2016)

The Love Witch Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)

Macfarlane, Steve and David M. Mullen. "The Love Witch." American Cinemtographer #74 (2016) ["Cinematographer M. David Mullen, ASC speaks with journalist Steve Macfarlane to discuss his work in The Love Witch, a stylish feminist homage to 1950s horror films."]

Morgan, Kim. "April Sight and Sound: Anna Biller." Sunset Gun (April 16, 2017)

Phillips-Carr, Chelsea. "Visually Mesmerizing, The Love Witch Could Use More Fire Power Behind Its Spell." Pop Matters (May 2, 2017)

Prime, Samuel B. "The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016): Ahistorical Emulation & Other Curses." LA Ciné Salon (November 11, 2016)

Tedesco, Kailey. "The Love Witch is the Kitschy, Hedonistic, Feminist Film You Need to See." Luna Luna (December 15, 2016)


LOVE WITCH TRAILER from Anna Biller on Vimeo.












Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Resources for September 13, 2017


Alpert, Avram. "Why the Greatest Advocates of Nonviolence Didn't Condemn Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist Acts of Violence." TruthOut (September 12, 2017)

Buncombe, Andrew. "The 17 books that could fix Donald Trump's ignorance of US history." Independent (August 21, 2017)






Degan, Raz. "The Last Shaman." Film School Radio (May 16, 2017) ["The Last Shaman is the story of James Freeman, a young man who decides to take matters in his own hands when faced with incurable depression. He undergoes a life-changing journey in the Amazon jungle that brings him a deeper understanding and acceptance of self. Along the way, he experiences the healing properties of the tribal plant medicine Ayahuasca and the world around it. From the outside looking in, James is living the American dream. But behind closed doors, he has no desire to live and contemplates suicide. Desperate to find a way out of darkness, James travels to the Amazon rain forest with one mission: to save his own life. Without knowing any of the dangers that lie ahead, he starts searching for a Shaman who can help. James’ road to redemption isn’t easy — he faces many obstacles and even a few life-threatening experiences as he learns to acknowledge the space inside himself and understand a larger truth about how we’re all connected. After undergoing various forms of treatments from tribal plants and medicines, James is faced with the consequences of his own actions. He undergoes a life changing experience that brings him a deeper understanding and acceptance of himself, and a more profound understanding of the interconnectedness of us all. Director Raz Degan join us for a conversation on their journey into a world of spirituality, self awareness and an ancient culture."]

Ellinger, Kat. "Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)." The Projection Booth #340 (September 12, 2017) ["Czechtember continues with a look at Pavel Jurácek's Case for a Rookie Hangman (AKA Prípad pro zacínajícího kata) from 1970. Very loosely based on the third part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the film tells the tale of Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) in the land of Balnibarbi, a surrealistic landscape where Lemuel has a hard time finding his footing, literally. Kat Ellinger and Kevin Heffernan join Mike to discuss the malleability of Swift's satire and The Key to Determining Dwarfs, or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver."]

Fallon, Claire. "24 Books That Will Help You Understand America." HuffPost (August 18, 2017)

Fisher, Nate, et al. "'But Who is the Dreamer?' - Twin Peaks: The Return." The Cinephiliacs (September 10, 2017) ["In a summer where blockbusters felt stale and indie films became rote, cinephilia thrived every Sunday night as David Lynch put on an 18-hour spectacle on primetime television. Twin Peaks: The Return saw the filmmaker behind Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr. return to the soap opera that would in part define two decades of serialized television. He created not just a new spin on the story of Dale Cooper and Laura Palmer, but instead delved into a mystery that felt more aesthetically, narratively, and emotionally involved than any other visual story this year. As the boundaries between cinema, television, streaming, and other categories have become less defined, Twin Peaks: The Return leapt past these debates to simply create an utterly singular work about the never ending battle between good and evil. "]

Hart, David and Anya Novak. "The Abyss and Sexism in the Workplace." Pop Culture Case Study #235 (May 18, 2017)

Hudson, David. "Toshio Matsumoto, 1932 - 2017." Keyframe (April 13, 2017) ["Film director, video artist and film theoretician, Toshio Matsumoto was a pioneer of Japanese 1960s experimental cinema," wrote Elsa Coustou in 2015 for the Tate Modern.]

Modhz. "It (2017)." Letterboxd (September 12, 2017)










ENG 102: Historical Thinking, Critical Literacy and Ethical Reasoning (Ongoing Archive)

[Personal, collective, social, political, critical and reflective -- also memory, remembering, biography and autobiography.  This is part of a ENG 102 reflective writing practice to develop Ethical Reasoning and Historical Thinking - everything in the course is about critical literacy.]

Monologism at its extreme denies the existence outside itself of another consciousness with equal rights and equal responsibilities, another I with equal rights (thou). With a monologic approach…another person remains wholly and merely an object of consciousness, and not another consciousness. No response is expected from it that could change everything in the world of my consciousness. Monologue is finalized and deaf to the other's response, does not expect it and does not acknowledge in it any decisive force. Monologue manages without the other, and therefore to some degree materializes all reality. Monologue pretends to be the ultimate word. It closes down the represented world and represented persons. (Bakhtin: 292-93)  
The dialogic nature of consciousness. The dialogic nature of human life itself. The single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human life is the open- ended dialogue. Life by its very nature is dialogic. To live means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree, and so forth. In this dialogue a person participates wholly and throughout his whole life: with his eyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit, with his whole body and deeds. He invests his entire self in discourse, and this discourse enters into the dialogic fabric of human life, into the world symposium. (Bakhtin: 293)  
Bakhtin, Mikhail M. Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics. ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota P, 1984. 
As citizens of a globalized world it is imperative that we begin to develop a broader awareness of the interconnected cultures and societies that influence and shape world events. Anyone remotely aware of the American social/cultural landscape must recognize that many of our citizens are unaware of the broader relations and connections of the world in which they live in. Many Americans tend to have a narrow understanding of world history, they are educated through ethnocentric American textbooks and informed through mediatized narratives filtered through the lenses of the dominant center, both of these effectively ignore the realities of the margins (culturally, economically and socially). Many concerned citizens struggle to carve out meaning in the contemporary data stream and suffer the neglect of a mainstream media that limits itself to predigested dualistic positions. In this simplified media environment, vast regions of the world are presumed to be unable to speak for themselves and rarely, in the mainstream corporate media that serves as the news for a majority of American citizens, do we receive sustained and in-depth critical analysis of issues through the voices and experiences of multiple interested parties. - Michael Benton (August 2016)
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. "The danger of a single story." TED Talks (July 2009) 
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." -- Ray Bradbury http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930312&slug=1689996   
McKay, Brett and Kate Mckay. "Beware the Too Compelling Narrative." The Art of Manliness (April 29, 2015)
Propaganda (Key Concept)  Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Political Compass Test (website)
Robinson, Ken. "Changing Education Paradigms." RSA Animate (2010)
This, from Don DeLillo’s iconic 1985 novel, White Noise [a reminder that our classroom has specific rules that you must follow]: 
           
“By coming in here, you agree to a certain behavior,” Mink said.
           
“What behavior?”

“Room behavior.  The point of rooms is that they’re inside.  No one should go into a room unless he understands this.  People behave one way in rooms, another way in streets, parks and airports.  To enter a room is to agree to a certain kind of behavior.  It follows that this would be the kind of behavior that takes place in rooms.  This is the standard, as opposed to parking lots and beaches.  It is the point of rooms.  No one should enter a room not knowing the point.  There is an unwritten agreement between the person who enters a room and the person whose room has been entered, as opposed to open-air theaters, outdoor pools.  The purpose of a room derives from the special nature of a room.  A room is inside.  This is what people in rooms have to agree on, as differentiated from lawns, meadows, fields, orchards.” (292)





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"60 Words." Radiolab (April 18, 2014) ["This hour we pull apart one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words of legal language have blurred the line between war and peace. In the hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a lawyer sat down in front of a computer and started writing a legal justification for taking action against those responsible. The language that he drafted and that President George W. Bush signed into law - called the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) - has at its heart one single sentence, 60 words long. Over the last decade, those 60 words have become the legal foundation for the "war on terror." In this collaboration with BuzzFeed, reporter Gregory Johnsen tells us the story of how this has come to be one of the most important, confusing, troubling sentences of the past 12 years. We go into the meetings that took place in the chaotic days just after 9/11, speak with Congresswoman Barbara Lee and former Congressman Ron Dellums about the vote on the AUMF. We hear from former White House and State Department lawyers John Bellinger & Harold Koh. We learn how this legal language unleashed Guantanamo, Navy Seal raids and drone strikes. And we speak with journalist Daniel Klaidman, legal expert Benjamin Wittes and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine about how these words came to be interpreted, and what they mean for the future of war and peace."]

"100 years ago, a forgotten Soviet revolution in LGBTQ rights: Review of Dan Healey’s book, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia." Monthly Review (October 30, 2017)

Abu-Jamal, Mumia and Michael Parenti. "Created Unequal (Law, Money and Mumia Abu-Jamal)." Unwelcome Guests #6 (April 12, 2000)

Abunimah, Ali. "The Economic Destruction of Gaza." TruthOut (April 10, 2014)  ["The following excerpt focuses on how the Gaza Strip, decimated by attacks and a collective punishment imposed boycott by Israel, is becoming increasingly an economic appendage of Israel. In the process, the independent business and farming structure of Gaza is collapsing."]

Achcar, Gilbert. "‘Nothing mysterious about Islamic State.’" The News on Sunday (December 27, 2015)

Acker, Caroline. "Talking Drug Policy and Addiction." History for the Future (January 29, 2010)

Alexander, Elizabeth, Maya Angelou, and Arnold Rampersand. "W.E.B. Du Bois & the American Soul." On Being (January 7, 2016)  ["One of the most extraordinary minds of American and global history, W.E.B. Du Bois penned the famous line that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.” He is a formative voice for many of the people who gave us the Civil Rights Movement. But his passionate, poetic words and intelligence continue to enliven 21st-century life on the color line and beyond it. We bring Du Bois’ life and ideas into relief — featuring one of the last interviews the great Maya Angelou gave before her death."]

Alexander, Michelle. "Introduction." The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. NY: The New Press, 2010: 1-19.

---. "The New Jim Crow." The UO Channel (November 15, 2012) ["For reasons that seem to have little to do with crime or crime rates, we in the United States have chosen to lock up more than two million of our citizens. The U.S. has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world, and it is continuing to rise. Michelle Alexander, a legal scholar and former civil rights attorney, examines this phenomenon, and offers her thoughts on what she believes to be the underlying racial biases that drive the U.S. criminal justice system. Alexander’s lecture ... will be based on her recent book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)."]

---. "Who We Want to Become: Beyond the New Jim Crow." On Being (April 21, 2016) ["The civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander is one of the people who is waking us up to history we don't remember, and structures most of us can't fathom intending to create. She calls the punitive culture that has emerged the "new Jim Crow," and is making it visible in the name of a fierce hope and belief in our collective capacity to engender the transformation to which this moment is calling."]

Alexander, Michelle, et al. "Race, Incarceration, and the New Jim Crow." The Sociological Cinema (December 27, 2014)


Ali, Mostafa and Hani Shukrallah. "What Happened to the Egyptian Revolution?" We Are Many (June 2013)


Ali, Tariq. "The Rotten Heart of Europe." Unwelcome Guests #637 (January 5, 2013)

---. "Turning Points in the History of Imperialism." Law and Disorder Radio (Decenber 31, 2013)

Allen, Amy. "Feminist Perspectives on Power." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Last revised July 6, 2016)
Alpert, Robert. "The Social Network: The Contemporary Pursuit of Happiness through Social Connections." Jump Cut #53 (Summer 2011)

Altman, Karen E. "Consuming Ideology: The Better Homes in America Campaign." Critical Studies in Mass Communication #7 (1990): 286-307.

Ammon, Francesca. "The Social History of the Bulldozer." Against the Grain (April 20, 2016)

Anderson, C. W. "Print Culture 101: A Cheat Sheet and Syllabus." The Atlantic (August 18, 2010)


Annas, Julia. "What is Virtue Ethics For?." Philosophy Bites (December 20, 2014) ["Julia Annas outlines the key features of Virtue Ethics, the approach to living well derived from Aristotle's writings, and explains what she thinks the purpose of this ethical approach is."]

Anonymous (Global Decentralized Association of Activist Hackers) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Apostolidès, Jean-Marie. "Guy Debord, Situationism, and Psychogeography."  Entitled Opinions (April 27, 2016)

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "How To Make a Moral Revolution." Open Source (November 12, 2010)


---. "Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity." Building Bridges ["Kwame Anthony Appiah, is a British-born Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history."]

Appignanesi, Lisa, et al. "On Free Speech." London School of Economics & Political Science(June 2, 2015) ["What does it mean to have a right to free speech, and who has the right to curtail it? "]

Aravamudan, Srinivas. "Introduction: Perpetual War." PMLA (October 2009)


Armani, Frank, et al. "The Buried Bodies Case." Radiolab (June 3, 2016) ["In 1973, a massive manhunt in New York's Adirondack Mountains ended when police captured a man named Robert Garrow.  And that’s when this story really gets started. This episode we consider a string of barbaric crimes by a hated man, and the attorney who, when called to defend him, also wound up defending a core principle of our legal system.  When Frank Armani learned his client’s most gruesome secrets, he made a morally startling decision that stunned the world and goes to the heart of what it means to be a defense attorney - how far should lawyers go to provide the best defense to the worst people?"]

Armstrong, Kalim. "Telling the Story of Slavery." The New Yorker (February 17, 2016)

Armstrong, Scott, Randy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill. "'The Most Important Journalist You’ve Never Heard Of': Remembering William Worthy (1921-2014)." Democracy Now (May 19, 2014)
["We spend the hour remembering the pioneering journalist William Worthy, who died earlier this month at the age of 92. During the height of the Cold War, Worthy defied the U.S. government by reporting from the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Iran, North Vietnam and Algeria. He also worked closely with many African-American leaders, including A. Philip Randolph and Malcolm X. In the late 1950s, the State Department refused to renew his passport after he returned from a reporting trip into China. Despite not having a passport, Worthy traveled to Cuba in 1961 — two years after the Cuban revolution — and interviewed Fidel Castro. He was arrested upon returning to the United States — not for traveling to Cuba but for entering the United States illegally — an American citizen without a passport. The ordeal became the subject of Phil Ochs’ song, “The Ballad of William Worthy.” In 1981, Worthy traveled to Iran, two years after the revolution ousted the U.S.-backed Shah, resulting in a series of blockbuster exposés about U.S. actions in Iran. “For this generation of younger journalists who are coming of age in the era of the Edward Snowden documents, WikiLeaks, of the government surveillance on the metadata of journalists and many millions of people in this country and around the world, I would say that William Worthy is the single most important journalist that they’ve never heard of,” said investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, who considered Worthy a mentor. “If Bill Worthy was a white journalist, and not been an African-American journalist, he would be much better known than he is right now.” We air excerpts of our 1998 interview with Worthy and speak to Scahill, former Washington Post reporter Scott Armstrong, and Randy Goodman, a photojournalist who worked and traveled with Worthy throughout the 1980s."]

Arnove, Anthony and Viggo Mortensen. "10 Years of Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History."Democracy Now (November 21, 2014)

Arnove, Anthony, et al. "Howard Zinn Read-In at Purdue University." We Are Many (November 5, 2013)

Arrowood, Emily. "Here Are The Conservative Pundits Branding Black Lives Matter A 'Hate Group'." Media Matters (September 2, 2015)

Ash, Timothy Garton. "The Stasi On Our Minds." The New York Review of Books (May 31, 2007)

Aslan, Reza. "Islam's Reformation." On Being (November 20, 2014) ["In a probing and personal conversation, Reza Aslan opens a refreshing window on religion in the world and Islam in particular. It’s a longer view of history and humanity than news cycles invite — certainly when it comes to the Arab Spring, or to ISIS. His life is a kind of prism on the fluid story of religion in this century. But in a globalized world, we all have a personal stake in how this story unfolds."]

Assange, Julian and Slavoj Zizek. "Full Video of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Žižek With Amy Goodman." Democracy Now (July 2, 2011) ["In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, moderated by Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman. They discussed the impact of WikiLeaks on world politics, the release of the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, and Cablegate — the largest trove of classified U.S. government records in history. 'From being inside the center of the storm, I’ve learned not just about the structure of government, not just about how power flows in many countries around the world that we’ve dealt with, but rather how history is shaped and distorted by the media,' Assange said."]

"Astroturf." Sourcewatch (Last Modified: May 26, 2012)


"Astroturf Blogging." Sourcewatch (Last Modified: December 11, 2011)

Atkinson, Michael. "Archival Trouble: The fiction-free science fiction of Adam Curtis." Moving Image Source (February 16, 2012)

Auslin, Michael. "Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations." New in East Asian Studies (May 5, 2011)

Bacevich, Andrew. "Naming Our Nameless War: How Many Years Will It Be?" Common Dreams (May 28, 2013)

---. "The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking Twentieth Century Wars." The Journal of Military History #76 (April 2012): 333-342. ["What students want (and citizens deserve) is an account of the past that illuminates the present. The conventional narrative of the twentieth century, exalting World War II as an episode in which Anglo-American good triumphs over Nazi evil, is no longer adequate to that purpose. Today, the “lessons” that narrative teaches mislead rather than guide. The moment is ripe for revisionism. Historians need to respond to the challenge, replacing the familiar and morally reassuring story of a Short Twentieth Century with a less familiar and morally ambiguous story of a still unfolding Long Twentieth Century."]

---. "Why Is No Candidate Offering an Alternative to Militarized U.S. Foreign Policy?" Democracy Now (March 10, 2016)

Bady, Aaron. "Lincoln Against the Radicals." Jacobin (November 26, 2012)

Baggins, Brian. "The Black Panther Party." Marxist Internet Archive (Archive: 2002)

Bagley, Will. "Blazing the Trails Westward." Radio West (September 5, 2011)

Bailey, John. "Kim Stringfellow: Greetings from the Salton Sea." John's Bailiwick (October 30, 2017)

Baker, Katie J.M. "Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker." Buzz Feed (June 3, 2016) ["A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him,” according to a judge. At his sentencing Thursday, his victim read him a letter describing the “severe impact” the assault had on her."  The father of the rapist also made a statement "‘20 minutes of action’: father defends Stanford student son convicted of sexual assault," Another father responds: "To Brock Turner's Father, From Another Father."  This has led to a recall attempt against the judge he gave a light sentence to the rapist: "Just Before Giving Stanford Rapist 6 Months, Judge Dealt Another Light Sentence to Domestic Abuser."]

Baker, Kevin. "The real-life 'negro removals' behind HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero." The Guardian (September 24, 2015) ["David Simon’s TV series follows the fight against social housing in 1980s Yonkers, New York – but, as Kevin Baker reveals, it’s just the tip of the iceberg of the sordid American history of kicking black people out of their neighbourhoods."]

Bakhtin, Mikhail. "The Dialogic Nature of Consciousness." (Excerpts) Dialogic Cinephilia (April 16, 2015)

Ball, Julien. "A People's History of the French Revolution." We Are Many (June 2010)

Ball, Norman. "The Power of Auteurs and the Last Man Standing: Adam Curtis' Documentary Nightmares." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

Banks, Russell. "Apple's Security Debate is Everyone's Problem (Including Yours)." Note to Self (March 23, 2016)

Barker, Holly, et al. "The Secret, Silent Poisoning (Nuclear Victims in Peace and War)." Unwelcome Guests #616 (August 11, 2012)

Bass, Gary J. "The Blood Telegram." Lapham's Quarterly Podcast #52 (December 4, 2013) ["How did Pakistan's free elections in 1970 lead to a genocidal military crackdown against East Pakistan in 1971? And how did that result in the creation of an independent Bangladesh? And why was the United States involved? Professor Gary J. Bass explains the terrible events, which he chronicled in his book The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide."]

Batchelor, Stephen. "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist." FORA (March 19, 2010)

Bauer, Shane. "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard." Mother Jones (July/August 2016)

Bazer, Diana, et al. "High Culture, Part 2." Ideas (May 19, 2016)

Beaty, Maev, et al. "Education for Transformation." Ideas (June 2, 2016) ["How do we go about building a better world that's more prosperous, more equitable, and happier? Maybe, it turns out, by improving the lives of girls and women, giving one half of the human race a fairer shake. That all seems to start with access to education. From the Stratford Festival, writer Marina Nemat, actor Maev Beaty, historian Natalie Zemon-Davis and social activist Samantha Nutt talk about the possibilities for global change when we level out the playing field of gender."]

Beaver, Elizabeth, et al. "When Are Terrorists Not Terrorists? (State sponsored assassination by drones)." Unwelcome Guests #706 (February 7, 2015) ["We focus on drone technology, looking at the relationship between language and law. A range of speakers explain how the framing of the War On Terror has served the US military's purposes, and note that the US keeps details of its pretexts for state sponsored assassinations by drone as vague as possible. Plausible deniability is only needed if people are in a position where their actions are subject to informed questions. The core of this week's show is made up with a set of speeches from a 2015 meeting about the use of drone warfare, introduced by Bruce Gagnon and augmented by SAS whistleblower, Ben Griffin and a few classic words of Chris Hedges on how war affects its participants."]

Bender, Stephen. "Propaganda, Public Relations, & the Not-So-New Dark Age." LiP(Winter 2006)

Benjamin, Walter. "Theses on the Philosophy of History." Illuminations Trans. Harry Zohn. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968: 253 - 264.

Benshoff, Harry, ed. A Companion to the Horror Film. John Wiley and Sons, 2014.

Benton, Michael Dean. "A nation starts to mobilize: Something’s happening here." North of Center (October 12, 2011)

---. "Astroturf and Front Group Research: The Center for Union Facts." Dialogic Cinephilia (January 20, 2014)

---. "Astroturf Organizations Spreading Propaganda: 'Don't Make Us Pay.'" Dialogic Cinephilia (March 3, 2011)


---. "Fragile Victory in Egypt: Will U.S. foreign aid impede the will of the Egyptian people?" North of Center (February 16, 2011)

---. "'he could resist': The Lexington Tattoo Project and A Noosed Life." North of Center (February 3, 2013)

---. "Here There Be Monsters: A Response to the Public Outcry Surrounding the San Diego High School Shootings." Dialogic (August 20, 2007)

---. "Initial Thoughts on the Aftermath of the Verdict in the Trial of George Zimmerman." Dialogic Cinephilia (July 16, 2013)

---. ""James Allen: Without Sanctuary; The Debate Over the Hanging of a Barack Obama Effigy on the University of Kentucky Campus; The History of Lynching in America." Dialogic (November 3, 2008)

---. "The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic." Politics and Culture #3 (2001)

---. "Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story." The Smirking Chimp (November 3, 2009)

---. "Monsanto (Multinational Agricultural Biotechnology Corporation)." Dialogic Cinephilia (November 24, 2014)

---. "My Understanding of Anarchism 4.0" Dialogic Cinephilia (November 5, 2013)

---. "Notes on Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophernia." Dialogic (February 20, 2014)

---. "Occupy: One Year Later." North of Center (September 17, 2012)

---. "On Anarchism." Dialogic (June 10, 2010)

---. "On Feminism." Dialogic Cinephilia (October 21, 2015)

---. "The Politics of Meat 3.0" Dialogic (March 9, 2009)

---. "Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Researching the Issues." Dialogic (January 21, 2009)

Benton, Michael Dean and Michael Marchman. "So long—it’s been good to know ya: Remembering Howard Zinn." North of Center (February 13, 2010)

Bergen, Doris, et al. "The Struggle Over Mein Kampf." Ideas (December 29, 2015) ["What should be done with Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf? Scholars in Munich have just finished a new, heavily annotated version of the book before the copyright expires on December 31, 2015. They want to pre-empt neo-Nazis from being the sole bearers of the Führer's message. But they're facing a barrage of criticism. Sean Prpick explores the debate."]

Berkowitz, Roger. "The Human Factor - Hannah Arendt." Ideas (June 26, 2016) ["Hannah Arendt's best-known work, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil was based on her reporting for The New Yorker magazine about the trial of Adolph Eichmann. The book made her both famous and infamous. Eichmann had been one of the principal architects of the Nazi holocaust against the Jews, in which six million people died. Captured in Argentina after the war and brought to Israel, the spectacle of Eichmann on trial riveted the world."]

Bernays, Edward L. "Manipulating Public Opinion: The Why and the How." American Journal of Sociology 33.6 (May 1928): 958-971.

---. Propaganda. Horace Liveright, 1928.


Bernstein, Joseph. "Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream." Buzzfeed (October 5, 2017) ["A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right 'killing machine.'"]

Biggers, Jeff. "Coal in the Heartland." History for the Future (November 23, 2010)

Billings, Andrew C. "Biographical Omissions: The Case of A Beautiful Mind and the Search For Authenticity." The Film Journal #1 (May 2002)

Blain, Harry. "The Scale of Pentagon Waste Boggles the Mind, But Congress Keeps Giving Them More." Foreign Policy in Focus (October 10, 2017)

Blain, Keisha N. "Introduction to the #Blackpanthersyllabus." AAIHS (February 20, 2016)

Blakemore, Colin. "Mechanics of the Mind." The Reith Lecture (November 10 - December 15, 1976)

Bliss, Laura. "The Horror of Orlando and the Threat to Public Life." Citylab (June 14, 2016) ["In the absence of meaningful gun reform, it isn’t hard to imagine public spaces becoming more rigid, enclosed, and surveilled. That’s a problem."]

Block, Fred. "Malthus, Market Fundamentalism, and Welfare’s Trajectory." Against the Grain (August 30, 2016) ["The idea that human society and markets are self-regulating, and that therefore political intervention to address poverty and equality is wrong-headed, has taken over the political landscape. Fred Block shows how that idea, advanced by T. R. Malthus and much later by Charles Murray, has pushed governments to abandon safety-net protections."]

Blum, William. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II." Common Courage Press, 2004.

Blyth, Mark, David Kaiser and Vanessa Williamson. "The French Sensation: Income Inequality in 700 Pages and a Hundred Graphs." Radio Open Source (May 1, 2014)


Bonilla, Yarimar. "Puerto Ricans Call for Aid Amid Catastrophe: 'We're American Citizens. We Can't Be Left to Die.'" Democracy Now (September 26, 2017) ["Six days after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, 3.4 million U.S. citizens in the territory remain without adequate food, water and fuel. But as the massive crisis became clear over the weekend, President Trump failed to weigh in, instead lashing out at sports players who joined in protest against racial injustice. It took the president five full days to respond, with comments that appeared to blame the island for its own misfortune. We examine the dire situation in Puerto Rico with Yarimar Bonilla, Puerto Rican scholar, who wrote in The Washington Post, "Why would anyone in Puerto Rico want a hurricane? Because someone will get rich." And we speak with Puerto Ricans in New York who have been unable to reach loved ones after nearly a week."]

Bonner, Christopher. "The Bonds of History." AAIHS (February 25, 2016)

Bordwell, David. "How Motion Pictures Became the Movies 1908-1920." (Posted on Vimeo: 2013)

Bossis, Anthony, et al. "High Culture, Part 1." Ideas (May 12, 2016) ["LSD. MDMA. Magic Mushrooms. The demonized drugs of the 1960's, some of them banned over four decades ago, are back. But now they're on the front-lines of medicine, as scientists around the world explore their healing properties. LSD for alcoholism. Psilocybin (magic mushrooms) for anxiety. MDMA (Ecstasy) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder."]

Bowden, Charles. "Observations about the American psyche, essays on the natural world, and gritty stories about drug violence and other crimes." Radio West (September 5, 2014)

Brand, Emily. "Can Drinking Tea Turn You Into a Whore?" The History of Love (October 10, 2013)

Braund, Susanna. "The Poetry of Virgil." Entitled Opinions (October 25, 2005)


Brenner, Rebecca. "How American Racism Shaped Nazism." Black Perspectives (October 5, 2017)

Brennerman, Sarah. "The War at Home: What America's Longest War Has Shown Us About Who We Are..." Oregon Humanities Center (October 18, 2011)

Brookes, Chris, et al. "Vestigial Tales, Pt. 1." Ideas (August 11, 2016) ["Analysing stories is usually territory claimed by writers, critics, and university scholars. But recently, evolutionary psychologists have begun to look at the human propensity for storytelling from a scientific perspective. Why are we humans such suckers for a good story? Literary critics find the answer in story structure, characters, and plotlines. The literary Darwinists find the answer in evolution. Documentary-maker Chris Brookes looks at the evolutionary origins of human storytelling."]

Bull, Henrik. "180." 99% Invisible #2 (September 9, 2010) ["In the beginning, former AIA-SF president Henrik Bull and the Transamerica Pyramid did not get along. The building was an affront to late 1960’s modernist ideals. It was silly. It looked like a dunce cap. Its large scale had no respect for the neighborhood in which it lived. But over 40 years, something happened…"]


Brown, Aileen, Will Parish and Alice Speri. "Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Use at Standing Rock to 'Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies.'" The Intercept (May 27, 2017)

"B. Ruby Rich (also with Club Des Femmes and Yance Ford)." The Cinematologists #49b (June 28, 2017) ["This episode of the podcast - produced in association with Club des Femmes and The Barbican - focuses on the recent retrospective and celebration of the American Film Critic, Scholar and Curator B. Ruby Rich (@brrich1) entitled Bring Ruby Rich. The centrepiece of the podcast is a wide ranging interview with Ruby herself covering, among many things, her initial entry into film criticism, her promotion of the cinema as a social space, the legacy of her concept of New Queer Cinema, and the possibility of a political cinema in the digital age. We also interview Sophie Mayer (@tr0ublemayer) and Selina Robertson (@Clubdesfemmes), from Club Des Femmes who organised the event. And there is an in-depth Q&A hosted by Ruby and featuring Yance Ford (@yford) who discusses his first feature, to be released on Netflix in September, entitled Strong Island."]

Buncombe, Andrew. "The 17 books that could fix Donald Trump's ignorance of US history." Independent (August 21, 2017)

Burdon, Peter. "The Banality of Evil." Against the Grain (March 29, 2016) ["As the political theorist Hannah Arendt watched the Nazi official Adolf Eichmann give testimony before the District Court of Jerusalem in 1961, she came up with a notion of evil that generated enormous controversy. Peter Burdon shares his understanding of what Arendt mean by "the banality of evil," and discusses the contemporary relevance of Arendt's ideas."]

Bures, Frank, et al. "Dispatches From the Ruins: Why do we crave the awful futures of apocalyptic fiction?" Aeon (May 16, 2017) ["In the first two decades of the new millennium, stories of the post-apocalypse have permeated pop culture, from books such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) and Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) to films and TV programmes such as The Walking Dead (2010-), the Hunger Games series (2012-15) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). While post-apocalyptic fictions of previous eras largely served as cautionary tales – against nuclear brinksmanship in On the Beach(1959) or weaponised biology in The Stand (1978) – today’s versions of these tales depict less alterable, more oblique and diffuse visions of our doom. So why can’t we seem to get enough of humanity’s unavoidable collapse and its bleak aftermath? "]

Burke, Tarana, Soraya Chemaly and Alicia Garza. "Meet Tarana Burke, Activist Who Started 'Me Too' Campaign to Ignite Conversation on Sexual Assault." Democracy Now (October 17, 2017) ["Amid the ongoing fallout from sexual assault and harassment allegations against Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, a former contestant on “Celebrity Apprentice” has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for all documents relating to her and any other women who have accused the U.S. president of unwanted sexual contact. We look at how this has reignited a conversation about sexual assault with women using the #MeToo hashtag, and speak with activist Tarana Burke, who started the campaign about a decade ago. “'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me, and it changed the trajectory of my healing process,” Burke says. We also speak with Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and Soraya Chemaly, a journalist who covers the intersection of gender and politics."]

Burks, Raychell, et al. "Women of Science." Popaganda (May 8, 2015)

Burmilla, Ed. "When the Serfs Rebelled." Jacobin (October 28, 2017) ["In 1839, a small pocket of feudalism still existed in New York State. Then tenant farmers got organized."]

Butigan, Ken. "A May to Remember." Waging Nonviolence (May 3, 2012)

Calhoun, Craig and David Graeber. "The Democracy Project." The London School of Economics and Political Science." (April 30, 2013)

Campbell, Howard. "The Drug War Zone." History for the Future (February 15, 2011)

Carlin, Dan. "The American Peril." Hardcore History #49 (July 5, 2013) ["Imperial temptations and humanitarian nightmares force the United States of the late 19th Century to confront the contradictions between its revolutionary self-image and its expanding national interests."]

---. "Blueprint for Armageddon I." Hardcore History #50 (October 29, 2013)

---. "Blueprint for Armageddon II." Hardcore History #51 (January 30, 2014)

Carlin, Dan. "King of Kings, Pt. 1." Hardcore History #56 (2016) ["For more than 2,000 years the Greek and Persian Wars have been viewed through the lens of “The West”. It could hardly be otherwise given the near-monopoly Greek sources have on some of the historical narrative. The gateway to much of Achaemenid Persian history runs through Greek writers. When in 498bce the young and feisty democracy in Athens decides to send a small fleet to aid their fellow Greeks in Asia Minor to rebel against the Achaemenid Persians they incurred the wrath of the greatest empire the world had yet known. Herodotus says the Persian king tasked an attendant to prompt him thrice daily to “remember the Athenians” lest he forget to take revenge on them. From this moment on Greek and Persian destinies seem to become unbreakably intertwined. When Persia’s armies conduct amphibious landings in Greece in the 5thCentury bce they initiate what was at that time almost certainly the largest, most sophisticated military conflict in European history. Both sides will become perhaps the first adversaries to face off in what has often been portrayed as an ongoing, millenia-long competition between “East” and “West”. Both sides will also help sow the seeds for the other’s eventual historical eclipse."]

---. "King of Kings II." Hardcore History #57 (March 2016)

---. "Logical Insanity." Hardcore History (March 31, 2012)

---. "Old School Toughness." Hardcore History (April 27, 2010)

---. "Poking the Bear." Common Sense #270 (February 24, 2014) ["Ukraine has erupted in violence as protesters in Kiev oust the country's leader. Dan thinks U.S. efforts to clandestinely support or encourage one side of the conflict are dangerously short sighted."]

---. "Secret Leakage." Common Sense #248 (March 2, 2013)

---. "The Specter of Dissent." Common Sense #275 (May 24, 2014)
["The worst nightmare of the global Establishment isn't Islamic terrorism, it's critical mass levels of domestic dissent. If that's your worst worry, wouldn't you use every tool you had to forestall it? Dan thinks they are. Notes: 1. "The Six Principles of the New Populism (and the Establishment's Nightmare)" by Robert Reich, May 6, 2014; 2. "Sen. Warren's Floor Speech in Opposition to Michael Froman's Nomination for U.S. Trade Representative" (Text of speech on the Senate Floor); 3. "Glenn Greenwald: from Martin Luther King to Anonymous, the state targets dissenters not just "bad guys" " by Glenn Greenwald for The Guardian Newspaper, May 12, 2014."]

Carrusco, David. Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2012.

"Caveman." To the Best of Our Knowledge (May 16, 2010)

Chandler, Bill, et al. "Chokwe Lumumba: Remembering "America’s Most Revolutionary Mayor" Democracy Now (February 26, 2014)

"#Charlestonsyllabus."  AAIHS (2015)

Chatelain, Michael. "How to Teach Kids About What's Happening in Ferguson: A crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing." The Atlantic (August 25, 2014)

Chatterjee, Partha. "Nationalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism: some lessons from modern Indian history." London School of Economics and Political Science (April 3, 2014)

"Chernobyl 25 Years On." Eurozine (April 22, 2011: Archive of Essays)

"Chile Rising." Fault Lines (Documentary video posted on Youtube: January 2, 2012)

Chipman, Melissa. "When Religious Freedom Imposes." LEO Weekly (October 25, 2017)

Cho, Violet. "Thauk gya paw hee thwi deh thwi (Blood’s Oath to Beautiful Flower) — drama of insurgency in a Burmese Pwo Karen Film." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)

Chomsky, Noam: (Linguist/Political Economy/Historian/Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Chomsky, Noam.  "Concision." (Original 1992, Posted on Youtube: January 26, 2007)

---. Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of PropagandaNY: Seven Stories Press, 1997.

---. "On Corporate Personhood." (8 minute video in which he answers a question at a public presentation on April 22, 2011)

---.  Understanding Power. Edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel. The New Press, 2002.

---. "What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel." AlterNet (December 3, 2012)

---. "What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream." Z Magazine (October 1997)

Chomsky, Noam and Edward Hermann. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Pantheon Books, 2002.

Chomsky, Noam and Lawrence Krauss. "An Origins Project Dialogue." (Posted on Youtube: March 31, 2015) ["Join intellectual giant Noam Chomsky and noted physicist and public intellectual Lawrence Krauss for an intimate evening of conversation at the Origins Project Dialogue. Science, Mind, and Politics is a candid and unscripted conversation on contemporary issues on the nature of humanity, the power of science and the mind, and global social justice."]

Chretien, Todd. "A Novel Retelling of the October Revolution: Interview with China Miéville." International Socialist Review #107 (Winter 2017-2018).

Chua, Amy. "The Myths of Globalization: Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Hatred." Conversations with History (November 21, 2005)

Churchill, Ward. Acts of Rebellion. NY: Routledge, 2003.

Citizenfour (USA/Germany/UK: Laura Poitras, 2014: 114 mins) ["In January 2013, Laura Poitras started receiving anonymous encrypted e-mails from "CITIZENFOUR," who claimed to have evidence of illegal covert surveillance programs run by the NSA in collaboration with other intelligence agencies worldwide. Five months later, she and reporters Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her. The resulting film is history unfolding before our eyes."]

Cleaver, Kathleen, Danny Glover and Brian Jones. "The Black Power Mixtape." We Are Many (May 7, 2014) ["The New School and Haymarket Books present: Danny Glover, Kathleen Cleaver, and Brian Jones discussing the new book: The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975. Moderated by School of Media Studies Assistant Professor, Michelle Materre. The Black Power Mixtape: 1967 -- 1975 is an extraordinary window into the black freedom struggle in the United States, offering a treasure trove of fresh archival information about the Black Power movement from 1967 to 1975 and vivid portraits of some of its most dynamic participants, including Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael. The book — like the documentary film that inspired it — includes historical speeches and interviews by: Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Emile de Antonio, and Angela Davis. And it also features new commentary voiced by: Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, Harry Belafonte, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Robin Kelley, Abiodun Oyewole, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale, John Forte, and Questlove."]

"Coal Reignites Mighty Battle of Labor History." NPR (March 5, 2011)

Cockburn, Andrew. "'This is Our War & It is Shameful': Journalist Andrew Cockburn on the U.S. Role in the War in Yemen." Democracy Now (August 22, 2016) ["Even before the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen began more than a year ago, Yemen was ranked as one of the poorest countries in the world. But now, a year and a half into the war, Yemen’s health system has broken down, and the population is facing the threat of starvation. For more, we’re joined by Andrew Cockburn, the Washington editor for Harper’s magazine. His latest piece for Harper’s is headlined "Acceptable Losses: Aiding and Abetting the Saudi Slaughter in Yemen." He is author of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins.]

Cohen, Adam. "Buck v. Bell: Inside the SCOTUS Case That Led to Forced Sterilization of 70,000 & Inspired the Nazis." Democracy Now (March 17, 2016) ["In the 1927 case Buck v. Bell, the court upheld a statute that enabled the state of Virginia to sterilize so-called mental defectives or imbeciles. The person in question was Carrie Buck, a poor, young woman then confined in the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded, though she was neither epileptic nor mentally disabled. In the landmark decision, eight judges ruled that the state of Virginia had the right to sterilize her. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote the majority opinion concluding, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." The decision resulted in 60,000 to 70,000 sterilizations of Americans considered "unfit" to reproduce. At the Nuremberg trials, lawyers for Nazi scientists cited the opinion in defense of their actions. We speak to Adam Cohen, author of "Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck."]

Cole, Juan. "$206 Mn. to Hate Groups to Promote anti-Muslim Sentiment." Informed Comment (June 22, 2016)

Cole, Matthew and Jeremy Scahill. "Erik Prince in the Hot Seat: Blackwater Founder Under Investigation for Illegal Mercenary Biz." Democracy Now (March 25, 2016)

Coleman, Gabriella. "The Anthropology of Hackers." The Atlantic (September 21, 2010)

Collison, David J. "Corporate Propaganda: Its Implications for Accounting and Accountability." (Department of Accountancy and Business Finance University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K.: ND)

Cornell, Andrew. "The Lost History of 20th Century Anarchism." Against the Grain (April 18, 2016)

Coull, Brent A., et al. "Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture–recapture analysis." PLOS Medicine (October 10, 2017)

Crane, John and Mark Hertsgaard. "Meet the Pentagon Official Who Blew the Whistle on Mistreatment of Other Whistleblowers." Democracy Now (May 23, 2016)

Crawford, Jarmahl, Peniel Joseph and Isabel Wilkerson. "Stokely Carmichael and Black Power." Radio Open Source (March 6, 2014)

Crawley, Heaven. "Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Migration Edition (Abroad)." On the Media (July 29, 2016) ["Migration and refugees have been in the news a lot in the last two years; a deeper understanding of migration and refugees, unfortunately, has not. From misleading language to distorted facts to the abuse of the very term "breaking news" (when in fact emigration, particularly into Europe, tends to remain constant) -- coverage of refugees and migration is all too often predictably poor. "]

Curtis, Adam. "The Baby and the Baath Water." The Medium and the Message (June 16, 2011)

D'Arpino, Adam, et al. "Strange Continuity: Why Our Brains Don't Explode at Film Cuts." Aeon (September 19, 2017)

Daesler, Graham. "Cutter's Way: The Mysterious Art of Film Editing." Bright Lights Film Journals #78 (2012)

Daston, Lorraine. "How To Think About Science #2: On Paradigms and Objectivity." Ideas (January 2, 2009)

Davis, Wade. "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Knowledge Matters in the Modern World." (Posted on Vimeo: 2012)

Davis-Cohen, Simon. "Fossil Fuel Misinformation Helps Quash Community Effort to Ban Fracking in Youngstown, Ohio." Desmog (October 18, 2017) [Lambert Strether at Naked Capitalism comments: "In Ohio, initiatives can now be removed from the ballot, either by local boards of elections or the Secretary of State, even if they gather the required number of signatures. Fighting resource-extraction projects like fracking out in the colonies through the permitting and regulatory process is already difficult, and democracy-stifling laws like this just make matters worse (although easier for the comprador class in local power structures). This is exceptionally nasty, and the fossil fuel industry used their new tool to good advantage."]

Delblanco, Andrew. "A Vengeful Fury: Greg Grandin’s Empire of Necessity." The New York Times (January 12, 2014)

Dellums, Ronald V. "Legislating for the People." Conversations with History (November 21, 2005)

Desai, Anita and Andrew Robinson. "The Modern Resonance of Rabindranath Tagore." On Being (August 6, 2014) ["He bestowed the title “Mahatma” on Gandhi. He debated the deepest nature of reality with Einstein. He was championed by Yeats and Pound to become the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath — a writer and a painter, a philosopher and a musician, and a social innovator — but much of his poetry and prose is virtually untranslatable (or inaccessibly translated) for modern minds. We pull back the "dusty veils" that have hidden his memory from history."]

Desai, Radhika. "Marx's Capital at 150: An Invitation to History." Red Pepper (September 30, 2017)

Digital SNCC Gateway [Archive of resources: "The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the only national civil rights organization led by young people. Organized in 1960 and mentored by the legendary black organizer, Ella Baker, SNCC activists became full-time organizers, working with community leaders to build local grassroots organizations in the Deep South."]

DiLeo, Petrino. "An Economic History of the Great Depression." We Are Many (June 18, 2009)

Dirty Wars (USA: Rick Rowley, 2013: 87 mins) ["Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. In military jargon, JSOC teams "find, fix, and finish" their targets, who are selected through a secret process. No target is off limits for the "kill list," including U.S. citizens."]

Doblin, Rick, et al. "High Culture, Part 3." Ideas (May 26, 2016)

Doctorow, Cory. "Laura Poitras's Whitney show and book are a glimpse into life under full-strength, targeted US surveillance." Boing Boing (March 2, 2016)

Doherty, Thomas. "Out of the Past." The Cinephiliacs #79 (May 15, 2016) ["History is a malleable object, and how we understand the past begins with important events, speeches, documents, and objects, and then the connections we make between them. But movies can tell us just as much about the past, and for Professor Thomas Doherty, the story of Hollywood is very much the story of American culture. Doherty sat down with Peter during the annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference to discuss how he found his way into the emerging field of film history, and his interest in everything from teenage exploitation films to "the most important man in Hollywood" who had his hands on every studio film. They explore the morality of history, and how one examines "characters" of the past and understanding their perspective (especially when it's their relationship with the Third Reich). Finally, the two look at the ultimate film noir, Out of the Past, and question how and why this seemingly frivolous B-movie has risen to an all time canonical classic."]

Donner, Fred and McQuire Gibson. "Iraq Before Saddam Hussein." CHIASMOS (April 3, 2003)

Dowling, Robert M. "Eugene O'Neil: A Life in Four Acts." UCD Humanities Institute (May 12, 2016)

Draper, Deborah Riley. "Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: How 18 Black Olympians Defied Jim Crow & Hitler in 1936." Democracy Now (August 10, 2016)

Dry, Jude. "How Black Lives Matters Created the Accidental Documentarians." IndieWire (June 8, 2016)

Dufour, Jules. "The Worldwide Network of U.S. Military Bases: The Global Deployment of US Military Personnel." Global Research (March 7, 2016)

Dunbar-Hester, Christina. "Beyond McLuhan: Your New Media Syllabus." The Atlantic (September 16, 2010)

Dunbar, John. "The Citizens United Decision and Why It Matters." The Center for Public Integrity (October 18, 2017)

Dunn, Jack and Anthony Mcintyre. "Revisiting the Belfast Project." On the Media (April 27, 2016) ["The Belfast Project is an archive of interviews with militia members from both sides of Ireland's "Troubles," the war that raged in Northern Ireland from the 1970s to the 1990s. The archives, which are housed at Boston College Library, are off-limits to the public and law enforcement, due to the fact that those interviewed agreed to speak on the condition that their testimonies not be published until their deaths. But since 2011, British authorities have launched a series of attempts to get their hands on the records, most recently this week when they subpoenaed Boston College for the files pertaining to lead researcher and former militant Anthony McIntyre."]

Durr, Clifford Judkins. "Freedom of Speech for Whom?" Public Opinion Quarterly 8.3 (Autumn 1944): 391-406.

"Dying Words." On the Media (June 3, 2016) ["Jeff Schmalz was diagnosed with AIDS 25 years ago after collapsing at his desk at the New York Times. The disease set him on a new course, one that eventually changed the way "the paper of record," and many others around the country, wrote about AIDS and about the lives of gay men and women."]

Economics/Political Economy Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Edgett, Ruth. "Toward an Ethical Framework for Advocay in Public Relations." Journal of Public Relations Research 14.1 (2002): 1-26.

Eisen, Jill, et al.  "Fat and Sugar, Pt. 1." Ideas (June 15, 2016) ["First, fat was the dietary bad guy. We were warned back in the 1980s to cut back on eggs, meat and full-fat dairy to avoid heart disease. So we started eating more bread, rice and pasta and fat-free snacks. But we got sicker and fatter. Now sugar is the bad guy. Contributor Jill Eisen explores the complex, and sometimes contradictory, science of nutrition -- and tries to find clarity amidst the thicket of studies and ambiguous research."]

---. "Fat and Sugar, Pt. 2." Ideas (June 22, 2016).

Elizabeth, Heather, et al. "Sex, Truth and Audio Tape: Shifting identities on a changing sexual landscape (Part 1)." Ideas (October 25, 2017) ["It's often been said that everything in the world is about sex, except sex itself — sex is about power. So what are we to make of today's sexual landscape, where we see the most diverse range of orientations and expressions of sexuality in history? Lesbian, gay, queer, cis, pansexual, leather daddies, stone butch, asexual... the list keeps growing. And there is entrenched push-back against that expansion. So who gets to say what about whom? And as the sexuality landscape broadens, what will it mean?"]

---. "Sex, Truth and Audio Tape: What does consent really mean? (Part 2)" Ideas (November 1, 2017)
["The Harvey Weinstein story has unleashed a veritable tsunami of sexual assault and harassment claims. And there's a huge gender gap at work: overwhelmingly, men are the accused perpetrators; women, the victims. IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell explores the motivations, conscious and unconscious, behind this disturbing dynamic. "]

"The Fallout From the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Unintended Consequences and Lessons Learned." Common Cause (May 9, 2005)

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. trans. Charles Lam Markmann. Pluto Press, 2008.

---. The Wretched of the Earth. trans. Richard Philcox. Grove Press, 2004.


Farley, Lin. "Sexual Harassment, Revisited." On the Media (October 27, 2017)  ["Since the news of disgraced Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and assault of over 50 women, similar accusations have been lodged against men in Hollywood, journalism, the food industry, business and politics. The growing list suggests that we have begun a new era, where what was often dismissed as a regrettable occupational hazard, is finally being acknowledged as a crime. Lin Farley, author of Sexual Shakedown; the Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job, has been fighting for this moment since the mid-1970s, when she first coined the term “sexual harassment.” She and Brooke discuss how this language helped catalyze a change in attitudes around sexual misconduct, and how far we still have to go."]

Faroul, Rachelle and Aaron Glanz. "Kept Out: Banks Across U.S. Caught Systematically Rejecting People of Color for Home Loans." Democracy Now (February 15, 2018) ["A shocking new investigation by Reveal and the Center for Investigative Reporting has uncovered evidence that African Americans and Latinos are continuing to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts across the country. Reveal based its report on a review of 31 million mortgage records filed with the federal government in 2015 and 2016. The Reveal investigation found the redlining occurring across the country, including in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Antonio. We speak to Aaron Glantz, senior reporter at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and Rachelle Faroul, a 33-year-old African-American woman who was rejected twice by lenders when she tried to buy a brick row house in Philadelphia, where Reveal found African Americans were 2.7 times as likely as whites to be denied a conventional mortgage."]

Farrell, Henry. "Revolutionary Possibility." Jacobin (September 2017) ["China Miéville’s October depicts the transformative hope of revolution."]

"Father Daniel Berrigan, Anti-War Activist & Poet, Dies at 94." Democracy Now (April 30, 2016)

Fields, Robin and Joe Sexton. "How Many American Women Die From Causes Related to Pregnancy or Childbirth? No One Knows." Pro Publica (October 23, 2017)

Figes, Orlando. "U.S.S.R. in the 1920s: The New Economic Policy." Lapham's Quarterly #60 (April 17, 2014)

"Finding Home." To the Best of Our Knowledge (June 27, 2010)

Fine, Cordelia. Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences. UK: Icon Books, 2012.

Finkelstein, Norman. "Norman Finkelstein on What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage." Democracy Now (June 5, 2012)

Fishko, Sara. "Covering the JFK Assassination." On the Media (October 27, 2017)  ["The day that President John F. Kennedy died, TV was still relatively young. Live, on-site reporting was extremely cumbersome, costly and rare. But that day, the medium, and America’s relationship to it, changed forever. In this piece, originally aired in 2001, WNYC’s Sara Fishko, host of the Fishko Files, spoke with the TV anchors who covered the assassination, the president’s funeral and the attack on Lee Harvey Oswald in real time."]

Flanagan, Caitlin. "The Dark Power of Fraternities." The Atlantic (March 2014)

---. "Death at a Penn State Fraternity." The Atlantic (November 2017)

Fleischmann, Alayne and Matt Taibbi. "'The $9 Billion Witness' Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy." Democracy Now (January 1, 2015)

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth. "Creating a Favorable Business Climate: Corporations and Radio Broadcasting, 1934 to 1954 ." Business History Review #73.2 (Summer 1999): 221-255.

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf. "Cold War Americanism: Business, Pageantry, and Antiunionism in Weirton, West Virginia." Business History Review #77 (Spring 2003): 61-91.

"Forgotten Hollywood: The Blacklist." How Is This Movie (May 19, 2014) ["What happens when you combine the Salem Witch Hunts, 1950's Hollywood, ruthless propaganda and over zealous American politicians? Well...let's just say that we hope we aren't "blacklisted" ourselves for reminding people about this huge botch.Not only in Hollywood history, but American history as a whole, If you were a big time Hollywood player, there was a list you did NOT want to find your name. It ended careers; hell, it even ended lives. No one was safe, and everyone was afraid of being put on……….....The Blacklist!"]

Foster, John Bellamy. "Education and the Structural Crisis of Capital: The U.S. Case." Monthly Review (July 1, 2011)

---. "The Opt Out Revolt: Democracy and Education." Monthly Review 67.10 (March 2016)

Foster, John Bellamy and Robert W. McChesney. "The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism." Monthly Review 62.10 (March 2011)

Foster, John Bellamy, Robert W. McChesney and R. Jamil Jonna. "Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism." Monthly Review (April 1, 2011)

Foucault, Michel. "Panopticism." From Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books 1995): 195-228.

---. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975 - 1976. NY: Picador, 2003.

Framing/Discourse/Propaganda/Narratives Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

France, David and Peter Staley. "How to Survive a Plague": As ACT UP Turns 25, New Film Chronicles History of AIDS Activism in U.S." Democracy Now (March 23, 2012)

Freeman, Robert. "There is No Rehabilitating the Vietnam War." Common Dreams (September 24, 2017)

Fricker, Miranda. "Epistemic Injustice." Philosophy Bites (June 17, 2007)

Frillman, Karen, Charlie Herman and Kai Wright. "Nixon's Enemies." United States of Anxiety #9 (June 23, 2017) ["... President Richard M. Nixon, a man obsessed with winning. Whether it was an election or becoming a great leader, he would go to great lengths to ensure his success. But Nixon felt he was surrounded by enemies, so to make sure he triumphed, he had his staff create an “Enemies List:” a document with hundreds of people he thought could do him harm. It was part of the White House "Political Enemies Project," and included people ranging from some of Hollywood’s biggest stars to members of the media to business and labor leaders. 'It just so unpresidential for presidents to have enemies,' said John Dean, Nixon’s White House Counsel who disclosed the existence of the list when he testified before the Senate Watergate committee. “I mean, theoretically, the President is the President of the United States, not the President of the Republican or Democratic Party, or the President of the people who voted for him. We don't like to think of our leaders as being that narrow-minded that they think everybody is their enemy who isn't their friend.” Beyond it’s existence, the list was also remarkable because Nixon and his aides considered using it to try and find ways to use the power of the federal government to go after their enemies. How? One way was through the IRS."]

Froomkin, Dan and Jenna McLaughlin.  "Vindication for Edward Snowden From a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga." The Intercept (May 23, 2016)

Fry, Douglas P. "Peace in Our Time: Steven Pinker offers a curiously foreshortened account of humanity's irenic urges." Bookforum (December/January 2012)

Fulcher, James. Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Galeano, Eduardo. "In Conversation with Maria Arana." Lannan Podcasts (May 20, 2013)


---. Open Veins of America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Monthly Review Press, 1997.

Gender (Ongoing Archive) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

"Gender Pay Gap: Recent Trends and Explanations." Council of Economic Advisers Issue Brief (April 2015)

Gendler, Alex and Anthony Hazard. "How Did Hitler Rise to Power? : New TED-ED Animation Provides a Case Study in How Fascists Get Democratically Elected." Open Culture (July 25, 2016)

Gerard, Sarah. "On Thermonuclear Monarchy: An Interview with Elaine Scarry." The American Reader (2014) 

Gillepsie, Alex, Philip Horne and Sandra Jovchelovitch. "Literary Festival 2014: More Tales from the Two James(es)." The London School of Economics and Political Science (February 23, 2014) ["... readings from the work of William and Henry James to explore the links between psychology and fiction."]

Giovanni, Nikki. "Award winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni shares her thoughts on black history, and the recent loss of Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and her own mother." Uprising Radio (February 17, 2006)

---. "Soul Food, Sex and Space." On Being (March 17, 2016) ["In the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni was a revolutionary poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She had a famous dialogue with James Baldwin in Paris in 1971. Now a professor at Virginia Tech, she brought beauty and courage by way of poetry after the shooting there. Today, she is a self-proclaimed space freak and a delighted elder — an adored voice to hip-hop artists and the new forms of social change this generation is creating."]

Giroux, Henry. "America’s Addiction to Violence." Counterpunch (December 25, 2015)

Glanville, Phillipa. "The Dichotomies of Drink: The History of Alcohol 1690 - 1920." The National Archive Podcast Series (September 28, 2006)

Gleick, James, et al. "Information." To the Best of Our Knowledge (September 4, 2011)

"Global Financial and Economic Crises of 2007 - 2009." History Commons (Historical Timeline)

"Global Warming." History Commons (Ongoing Historical Timeline)

Goddard, Stephen. "'So, Did You See Me?': Testimony, Memory and Re-Making Film History." LOLA #1 (2011)

Goldman, Wendy. "Purges in the USSSR." History for the Future (May 21, 2010)

Gonzalez, Pedro Blas. "Citizen Kane: Biography and the Unfinished Sentence." Senses of Cinema #57 (2010)

Goodman, David and Greg Mitchell. "Covering the First Atomic Bombs." On the Media (May 25, 2016) ["First, author and journalist Greg Mitchell discusses the case of George Weller, the first reporter on the scene after the bombings, whose first-hand accounts of the aftermath, and the mysterious illness that followed, were never published, only to be discovered in 2005. Then, David Goodman, co-author of Exception to the Rulers, tells the story of New York Times reporter William L. Laurence, who witnessed the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and won a Pulitzer for his heavily pro-bombing reporting -- only for it to be revealed that he was working for the US War Department all along."]

Gordon, Rebecca. "Torture, Ethically Speaking." Against the Grain (March 30, 2016) ["Is torture ever morally permissible? For what purposes does the U.S. government practice torture? And what should we make of the oft-repeated ticking time bomb scenario? Rebecca Gordon contends that examining torture through the lens of virtue ethics helps us understand what torture does in relation to its targets, its practitioners, and society at large."]

Gottschalk, Peter. "American Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance." After Words (December 28, 2013) ["Peter Gottschalk talks about his book, American Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance, in which he argues that religious intolerance has been strong in America since the middle of the nineteenth century."]

Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. W.W. Norton, 1996.

Gourevitch, Philip. "On the Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath." Entitled Opinions (June 15, 2016)

Graeber, David. "Debt: The First Five Thousand Years." Mute (February 10, 2009)

---. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Melville House, 2011.

---. "Occupy Wall Street's anarchist roots: The 'Occupy' movement is one of several in American history to be based on anarchist principles." Al Jazeera (November 30, 2011)

Graeber, David and Richard Wolff. "The Vast Machine To Perpetuate Hopelessness (Marxian Class Analysis 1)." Unwelcome Guests #624 (October 6, 2012)

Graeber, David, et al. "Let Your Life Be A Friction (To Stop The Machine)." Unwelcome Guests #593 (March 3, 2012)

---, et al. "Occupy 2.0 (Peer Produced Politics)." Unwelcome Guests #594 (March 10, 2012)

---, et al. "The Psychology of Transition: Undoing Millennia of Social Control." Unwelcome Guests #597 (March 31, 2012)

Graham, Darwin Dond, A.C. Thompson and Ali Winston. "Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group’s Campaign of Menace." ProPublica (October 19, 2017)

Grandin, Greg. "Kissinger's Reactionary Idealism." Against the Grain (March 21, 2016) ["Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been denounced as a war criminal and celebrated as one of the most pragmatic statesmen of the 20th century. But historian Greg Grandin argues that something fundamental has been missed in the assessments of the now 93-year-old Kissinger. Grandin reflects on the philosophical underpinnings of Henry Kissinger's politics."]

"The Great Iraq War Fraud." Media Lens (July 13, 2016)

Green, James. "Death in the Haymarket." We Are Many (June 17, 2010)

Greenberg, Joel. "A Feathered River Across the Sky." Radio West (April 24, 2014) ["This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon. Her species was native to North America, and in the 1800s the birds numbered in the billions. Their vast airborne flocks reportedly blotted out the sun and took days to pass overhead. But in just a few decades, they were gone. Naturalist Joel Greenberg has written a book about the passenger pigeon’s natural history and its speedy flight to extinction, and he joins us to examine what the bird’s demise reveals about our relationship to the natural world."]

Greenwald, Glenn. "Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette: The dictate that one 'not speak ill of the dead' is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures." Comment is Free (April 8, 2013)

"The Gun." To the Best of Our Knowledge (May 22, 2016) ["Guns are a part of our national mythology. Just consider the Western, Annie Oakley, Daniel Boone -- it's hard to deny the role guns had in shaping America. But what if all those stories were exaggerated at best? What if the gun myth was created in the 19th century by gun manufacturers? In other words, what if guns aren’t what we stand for, but instead, are just another thing we were sold."]

Gusterson, Hugh. "A Double Standard on Nuclear Weapons?" MIT Center for International Studies of the Conventional Wisdom  (April 2006)

Haag, Pamela. "The Gunning of America." Radio West (October 6, 2017) ["Historian Pamela Haag says there’s a mythology around American gun culture. The conventional wisdom is that since the Revolutionary War we’ve had some primal bond with our firearms. But Haag argues that our guns were once just another tool of everyday life and that the gun industry convinced us we needed to be armed. In her book, she follows the rise of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and the marketing campaign she says created our gun culture."]

Hacking, Ian and Andrew Pickering. "How To Think About Science #4: On Science as Experimental Philosophy." Ideas (January 2, 2009)


Halahan, Kirk. "Ivy Lee and the Rockefellers' Response to the 1913-1914 Colorado Coal Strike." Journal of Public Relations Research 14.4 (2002): 265 - 315.

Hall, Kevin. "A Reporter On The Panama Papers: The Basic Idea Is 'To Hide True Ownership.'" Fresh Air (May 19, 2016) ["Documents leaked from a Panama-based law firm have offered new insight into how easy it is for the rich and corrupt to hide their assets."]

Hall, Stuart. "Representation & The Media." (Posted on Youtube: June 23, 2011 - this is the first part and the other three parts will show up on the right side of your screen.  Here is a transcript of the video from the Media Education Foundation: transcript.)

Hamburger, Philip and Steven Waldman. "The Long Experiment of American Democracy." On Being (July 3, 2014)

Hancox, Dan. "Spain's Communist Village Is Making The Rest Of The World Look Bad." Business Insider (December 3, 2013)

Harcourt, Felix. "The Black Press and Ku Klux Klan." Black Perspectives (October 18, 2017)

Hari, Johann. "Everything We Know About the Drug War & Addiction is Wrong." Democracy Now (February 4, 2015) ["As President Obama seeks $27.6 billion for federal drug control programs in his new budget, we talk to British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Over the past four years Hari has traveled to the United States, Mexico, Canada, Uruguay and Portugal to research his new book, "Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War of Drugs." His findings may surprise you — from the U.S. government’s persecution of Billie Holiday, to Vancouver’s success in addressing its heroin epidemic, to Portugal’s experiment with full decriminalization of all drugs." Part Two of the Interview ]

Hart, Carl. "People Are Dying in Opioid Crisis Because of Politicians’ Ignorance." Democracy Now (October 27, 2017) ["President Trump announced Thursday that he is directing the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency—walking back his plans, announced in August, to declare it a more serious “national emergency.” The shift means the federal government will not, as of now, direct any new federal funds to address the opioid crisis, which killed 64,000 Americans last year. We speak with Columbia University psychology and psychiatry professor Carl Hart, who argues people are dying because of ignorance, not because of opioids."]

Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. NY: Oxford University Press, 2007.

---. Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey." (A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey: 2011)

Hawkes, David. Ideology. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2003.

Hawks, Julie. "Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma: A New Book on Economic Justice." Black Perspectives (October 17, 2017)

Hecht, Jennifer Michael. "A History of Doubt." Being (May 3, 2007)

Hedges, Chris. "America the Illiterate." Truthdig (August 31, 2016)

Hedges, Inez. "Amnesiac memory: Hiroshima/Nagasaki in Japanese film." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)

"Hemp for Victory." US Department of Agriculture (1942)


Henry, James. "A Panama Papers Primer." The Brian Lehrer Show (April 5, 2016)

Hersh, Seymour. ""Horrified": Seymour Hersh Reacts to Obama's Plan to Send 250 More U.S. Special Ops Troops to Syria." Democracy Now (April 25, 2016)

---. "Sy Hersh's Book on Bin Laden Killing Rejects U.S. Story, Says Saudis Financed Hiding of Qaeda Leader." Democracy Now (April 25, 2016) [ Part Two ]

Herzog, Werner and Errol Morris. "The Act of Killing." Vice (Video posted on Youtube: July 17, 2013)

Hichens, Christopher. "Once Upon a Time in Germany." Vanity Fair (August 2009) ["Movies have often romanticized Communist revolutionaries—think Benicio Del Toro as Che. But a new action thriller, The Baader Meinhof Complex, counterpunches, exposing the violent psychosis that gripped the young militants of the Red Army Faction in 1970s West Germany."]

History Commons ("The History Commons website is operated by the Center for Grassroots Oversight ("CGO"), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. CGO was incorporated as a public benefit corporation in late 2006, and received its 501(c)3 status on February 26, 2009. The website is a tool for open-content participatory journalism. It allows people to investigate important issues by providing a space where people can collaborate on the documentation of past and current events, as well as the entities associated with those events.")

"History of the Paris Commune." Marxists Internet Archive (Archive)

"History of Racial Injustice Calendar Highlights." Equal Justice Initiative (2017)

"History of US Interventions History Commons (Ongoing Historical Timeline)

Hoberman, J. "Behold the Man: Steven Soderbergh's Epic Film Biography of Che." VQR (Winter 2009)

Hofman, Sudie. "Rethinking Cinco de Mayo." Rethinking Schools (May 5, 2012)

Hogan, Ron. "'Still No Master Plan': The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu’s 2023: A Trilogy." Los Angeles Review of Books (October 15, 2017)

"Hollywood DC - The MPAA." How Is This Movie (December 20, 2014) [The history of the MPAA: Motion Picture Association of America]

Hom, Andrew, et al. Time, Temporality, and Global Politics. E-International Relations Publishing, 2016.


Hopkins, C.J. "Who's Afraid of Corporate COINTELPRO?" Couterpunch (November 3, 2017)

Horne, Gerald. ""You Can't Disconnect History of the 2nd Amendment From the History of White Supremacy." Democracy Now (July 12, 2016) 

Horvat, Srećko and Igor Štiks. "Welcome to the Desert of Transition!: Post-Socialism, the European Union, and a New Left in the Balkans." Monthly Review (March 1, 2012)

Houp, Wesley. "Life by Rheotaxis: A River Rat's Perspective North of Center (April 13, 2011)

Hudis, Peter. "Frantz Fanon." Against the Grain (March 28, 2016) ["The revolutionary and psychiatrist Franz Fanon was arguably the greatest philosopher of anti-colonialism.  At a time when activists are turning the spotlight on racial oppression, he's never been more relevant. Peter Hudis discusses Fanon's writings on nationalism, race, and humanism. He also explores the controversial question of violence."]

Hudson, David. "The Civil War @ 150 MUBI (April 12, 2011)

Hudson, Michael and Frederick Obermaier. "Panama Papers' Reporters Explain How the Biggest Leak in Data Journalism's History Materialized." Democracy Now (April 5, 2016)

---. "Panama Papers: World Leaders from Iceland to Argentina Exposed in Massive Tax Evasion Scheme." Democracy Now (April 5, 2016)


Huerta, Delores and Jose Antonio Orozco. "The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez." Making Contact (April 9, 2014)

Hunt, Patrick. "The Rosetta Stone." Entitled Opinions (October 12, 2011)

"Iraq War Timeline: From "Shock and Awe" to Civilian Toll, to Billions in Reconstruction, Vet Health." Democracy Now (March 19, 2013)

Islay, David. "The Everyday Art of Listening." On Being (April 17, 2014)

Isserman, Maurice. "Michael Harrington, 'The Other American.'" History for the Future (April 30, 2012)

Jabr, Ferris. "Why Walking Helps Us Think." The New Yorker (September 3, 2014)

Jacobson, Louis. "Counting up how much the NRA spends on campaigns and lobbying." Politifact (October 11, 2017)

Jasanoff, Sheila. "Democracy and Knowledge." Ideas (December 17, 2015) ["Is there a direct connection between knowledge and democracy? What kind of knowledge is required to sustain a healthy democractic society? How can we guarantee a solid foundation for sound policies and social practices? Does democracy help or hinder scientific progress? Can science contribute to the evolution and maintenance of a healthy civil society?"]

Jeffries, Stuart. "David Graeber interview: ‘So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary.'" The Guardian (March 21, 2015)

Jhally, Sut and Roger Waters. "The Occupation of the American Mind: Documentary Looks at Israel's PR War in the United States." Democracy Now (September 14, 2017) ["We continue our conversation with legendary British musician Roger Waters, founding member of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is the narrator of a recent documentary titled "The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States." We air clips from the film and speak to Roger Waters and Sut Jhally, professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts and founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation, which produced the documentary."]

Johnson, Chalmers. "Militarism and the American Empire." Conversations with History (2005)

---. "On Our Managed Democracy." Truthdig (May 16, 2008)

Johnson, Nicholas. "Negroes and the Gun." After Words (January 18, 2014) ["Fordham Law School Professor Nicholas Johnson talks about his book, [Negroes and the Gun], in which he argues that there is an unreported tradition of African Americans using firearms to defend their families and communities."]

Jones, Kathleen B. "The Idea of a Common World: Ada Ushpiz’s Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt." The Los Angeles Review of Books (April 29, 2016)

Jones, Josh. How Can We Know What is True? And What Is BS? Tips from Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman & Michael Shermer." Open Culture (September 22, 2017)

Jones, William P. and Gary Younge. "50 Years Later, the Untold History of the March on Washington & MLK’s Most Famous Speech." Democracy Now (August 21, 2013)

Kacere, Laura. "The Radical History of Mother's Day." Nation of Change (May 12, 2012)

Toobin, Jeffrey. "Colin Kaepernick and a Landmark Supreme Court Case." The New Yorker (September 15, 2016)

Kahle, Brewster and Rick Prelinger. "The 9/11 TV News Archive: 3,000 Hours of Video News Coverage of 2001 Attacks Posted Online." Democracy Now (August 24, 2011)

---. "Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age." Democracy Now (August 24, 2011)

Kalmár, György. "Body Memories, Body Cinema: The Politics of Multi-Sensual Counter-Memory in György Pálfi’s Hukkle." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)

Kaplan, Alice. "Albert Camus and The Stranger." Entitled Opinions (May 18, 2016)

Kappeler, Victor E. "Ideology and the Historic Moment of Production: Part 1 of a 5 Part Series." Uprooting Criminology (November 25, 2013)

---. "Ideology and the Historic Moment of Production: Part 2 of a 5 Part Series." Uprooting Criminology (December 9, 2013)

---. "Ideology and the Historic Moment of Production: Part 3 of a 5 Part Series." Uprooting Criminology (January 9, 2014)

---. "Ideology and the Historic Moment of Production: Part 4 of a 5 Part Series." Uprooting Criminology (February 15, 2014)

Karski, Jan. "Polish Resistance Figure Jan Karski, Honored with Posthumous Medal of Freedom, in His Own Words" Democracy Now (June 5, 2012)

Katsiaficas, George. "1968, 40 Years Later: Student, Worker Protests Sweep France, Leaving Indelible Mark on the Country and the World. Democracy Now (May 14, 2008)

---. The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life. (AK Press, 2006)

Kendi, Ibram. "Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome Is A Racist Idea." AAIHS (June 21, 2016)

Khalidi, Rashid and Salim Yaqub. "Constraining and Shaping Nationalism: The United States and Iraq." CHIASMOS (April 7, 2003)

King, Jr., Martin Luther. "Beyond Vietnam: Speech at Riverside Church Meeting, New York, NY (April 4, 1967)."  (excerpted from Clayborne Carson et al., eds., Eyes on the Prize: A Reader and Guide (New York: Penguin, 1987), 201-04."]

---. "The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Presidential Address." (August 16, 1967) ["This is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last presidential address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1967). For those who have tried to convert Dr. King into a harmless symbol while ignoring his message,this is a most uncomfortable speech indeed, which is why you never hear too much about it. It remains relevant today."]

Kirshner, Jonathan. "Machinations of Wicked Men: A new biography falsifies Henry Kissinger’s intellectual legacy." Boston Review (March 9, 2016)

Kiely, Declan and Isaac Gewirtz. "Poe's Terror of the Soul." Lapham's Quarterly Podcast #51 (November 20, 2013)

Kilpatrick, Connor. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Jacobin (November 28, 2012)

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter From a Birmingham Jail." African Studies Center of University of Pennsylvania (April 16, 1963)

---. "On 45th Anniversary of His Death, Martin Luther King Jr. on the Power of Media and the Horror of War." Democracy Now (April 4, 2013)

Kinsey, Valerie. "Public Memory." Entitled Opinions (May 25, 2016)

Kinzer, Stephen and William Murphy, Jr. "US Wars and Social Control (From Regime Change Abroad to the War on Drugs at Home)." Unwelcome Guests #304 (April 30, 2006) ["In our first hour, this week, Stephen Kinzer, whose book, Overthrow, details the US empire's long history of instigating regime change, both the public pretext and the real interests at play. In our second hour, William Murphy Jr speaks about the "War On Drugs"."]

Kleinman, Steven and Dror Ladin. "After a Landmark Legal Ruling, Will CIA Torture Victims Finally Have Their Day in Court?" Democracy Now (May 6, 2016)

Kortright, Chris. "Colonization and Identity." The Anarchist Library (2003)

Krauss, Lawrence M. "The House Science Committee's Anti-Science Rampage." The New Yorker (September 14, 2016)

Kroll, Andy. "FCC Enables Faster Media Consolidation as Pro-Trump Sinclair Group Seizes Even More Local Stations." Democracy Now (October 26, 2017) ["A major decision by the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday eliminated a decades-old rule that ensures community residents can have a say in their local broadcast TV station. This comes as the FCCannounced plans Wednesday to abolish long-standing media ownership rules. Opponents say these changes will accelerate media consolidation, allowing massive corporate media companies, such as the right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group, to buy up and control even more local stations."]

Krul, Matthijs. "Mandela and Socialism." The Northstar (December 9, 2013)

Kuznick, Peter and Oliver Stone. "The Untold History of the United States." After Words (December 29, 2012)

---. "The Untold U.S. History from the Atomic Age to Vietnam to Obama’s Drone Wars." Democracy Now (November 16, 2012)

Kwoba, Brian. "How Capitalism Underdeveloped Africa." We Are Many (June 2009)

Strether, Lambert. "In Praise of Libraries." Naked Capitalism (October 29, 2017)

Lapham, Lewis. "Crowd Control." Lapham's Quarterly (Spring 2014)

Lawrence-Sanders, Ashleigh. "Beyond Monuments: African-Americans Contesting Civil War Memory." Black Perspectives (October 16, 2017)

Lears, Jackson. "A History of Disappointment." London Review of Books 34.1 (January 5, 2012)

Lee, Julia. "Our Gang: A Racial History of 'The Little Rascals.'" The Treatment (May 18, 2016)


Lembcke, Jerry. "The Myth of the Spitting Antiwar Protester." The New York Times (October 13, 2017)

Lemon, Edward and Steve Swerdlow. "Uzbekistan Cooperated with CIA Rendition & Torture Post-9/11, as Gov’t Boiled Dissidents Alive." Democracy Now (November 2, 2017) ["Sayfullo Saipov, the alleged assailant in the Tuesday attack that killed at least eight people in New York City, is an immigrant from Uzbekistan, a country that is now the focus of much attention, with some in the media calling it a hotbed of Islamist terror. We go to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to speak with Steve Swerdlow, Central Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch. We’re also joined by Edward Lemon, postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University."]

Lennon, Joseph. "'Dreams that hunger makes’: Memory and the origins of the hunger strike." UCD Humanities Institute (2016)

Lepore, Jill. "Tea Party Time ... and the Death of Compassion." Open Source (October 14, 2010)


Lepore, Jill, et al. "Smashmortion." On the Media (August 4, 2017) ["The surprising political history of abortion in America; how the language of the abortion debate impacts us all; state lawmakers are tightening the rules around how doctors communicate with their patients about abortion; and more."]

Levin, Yuval. "The Great Debate." After Words (January 4, 2014) ["Yuval Levin, founder and editor of National Affairs, talks about his book, The Great Debate, in which he discusses the origin of the political Left-Right divide, arguing that today's partisanship began with the debates over the French Revolution."]

Lewis, Daniel. "Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94." The New York Times (April 30, 2016)

Lewis, John. "John Lewis Marches On." Moyers & Company (July 26, 2013)

Lichtblau, Eric. "The Nazis Next Door: Eric Lichtblau on how the CIA & FBI Secretly Sheltered Nazi War Criminals." Democracy Now (October 31, 2014)

---. "Pt. 2: On The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men." Democracy Now (October 31, 2014)

Lin, Maya, et al. "American Icons: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Studio 360 (May 26, 2016)  ["How do you build a monument to a war that was more tragic than triumphant? Maya Lin was practically a kid when she got the commission to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall. “The veterans were asking me, ‘What do you think people are going to do when they first come here?’” she remembers. “And I wanted to say, ‘They’re going to cry.’" Her minimalistic granite wall was derided by one vet as a “black gash of shame.” But inscribed with the name of every fallen soldier, it became a sacred place for veterans and their families, and it influenced later designs like the National September 11 Memorial. We’ll visit a replica of the wall that travels to veterans’ parades around the country, and hear from former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel about how this singular work of architecture has influenced how we think about war."]

Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.

Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1922.

Liu, Max. "Book review: ‘The Killing of Osama bin Laden’ casts new light on the US operation against the al-Qaeda leader." The Independent (April 23, 2016)

Lock, Margaret. "How to Think About Science #3: Biology and Culture." Ideas (January 2, 2009)

Loewen, James. "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong." The New Press, 1995.

Longworth, Karina. "After the Fall: Arthur Miller (Blacklist Episode #14)." You Must Remember This (May 30, 2016) ["Arthur Miller considered Elia Kazan a close friend and collaborator, but when Kazan named names to HUAC, Miller broke with him and wrote The Crucible, a parable about anti-communist hysteria set amidst the Salem Witch Trials. But despite the committee’s sensitivity to criticism, HUAC didn’t subpoena Miller until he became engaged to Marilyn Monroe, then the biggest star and sex symbol of her day. Miller and Kazan would remain estranged for a decade, until the latter directed a play written by the former which, while drawing headlines for its depiction of Monroe, also seemed to parallel their falling out over HUAC."]

---. "Blacklist Flashback: Frank Sinatra Through 1945." You Must Remember This (June 6, 2016) 

---. "Frank Sinatra and Albert Maltz (Breaking the Blacklist, Part 1)." You Must Remember This (June 13, 2016) ["In the first of two episodes about major stars attempting to end the Blacklist, we’ll look at Frank Sinatra’s efforts to hire Hollywood Ten member Albert Maltz. Timing got in the way of Sinatra’s good intentions: this was the exact moment when Sinatra had become the coolest middle-aged man in America as “chairman of the board” of the newly-formed Vegas act now known as the Rat Pack. It was also the moment when Sinatra thought he was on the verge of acquiring real political power through his proximity to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy."]

---. "Kirk Douglas, Dalton Trumbo and Otto Preminger (Breaking the Blacklist, Part 2)." You Must Remember This (June 20, 2016) ["How did the Blacklist come to an end? If you ask Kirk Douglas, the end began with his hiring of Dalton Trumbo to write Spartacus -- or, rather Douglas flaunting of that hiring. Otto Preminger, who hired Trumbo to write Exodus, might see it differently. In truth, the end of the blacklist was a process that took over a decade, and couldn’t have happened without actions taken by, amongst others, Charlie Chaplin, director Joseph Losey, members of the Academy's Board of Governors and president John F. Kennedy. We'll talk about the connection between the end of the blacklist and the weakening of the production code, and what both had to do with the slow dissolution of the studio system amidst the rise of independent producers and a younger generation of audiences. Finally, we’ll discuss how those who had been blacklisted struggled to move on."]

Luna, Diego. "Diego Luna on His Directorial Debut, Cesar Chavez." Uprising Radio (March 24, 2014)

Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror Equal Justice Initiative (Ongoing Archive)

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. "Christianity - The First 3,000 Years." Radio West (November 29, 2010)

MacGillis, Alec. "The Ordeal of Appalachia: A new account challenges our notion of how the people of Appalachia 'acquired civilization and then lost it.'" ProPublica (October 30, 2017)

Magdoff, Fred. "Food as a Commodity." Monthly Review (January 1, 2012)

Mahani, Najmeh Khalili. "Mirroring History: Fassbinder’s The BRD Trilogy." Offscreen 17.2 (February 28, 2013)

Maher, Stephen. "The Political Economy of the Egyptian Uprising." Monthly Review (November 1, 2011)

Manningham-Buller, Eliza. "Securing Freedom." Reith Lectures (2011)

Marks, Ben. "Trailing Angela Davis, from FBI Flyers to 'Radical Chic' Art." Collector's Weekly (July 3, 2013)

Marritz, Ilya. "The Uneasy Future of Germany's Refugees." On the Media (July 29, 2016) ["Last summer, as headlines showed thousands of Middle Eastern refugees struggling to reach Europe--and often dying in the process--Germany set itself apart from many in the international community by warmly opening its doors. One year later, over a million refugees have migrated to Germany, but the warmth has begun to fade. Now, harnessing fears of immigration and disdain for the media, far Right groups are seizing the moment to advance their cause. Ilya Marritz went to Germany to witness the shifting tide of public opinion and examine how a decades-old media rule could tip the discourse in either direction."]

Marshall, Robert. "The Dark Legacy of Carlos Castaneda." Salon (April 4, 2007)

Massey, Doug. "Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Migration Edition (At Home)." On the Media (July 29, 2016) ["Princeton professor Doug Massey helps us navigate the pontificating, bombast, and straight up falsities surrounding immigration in America"]

Matos, Michaelangelo. "Genre Busting: The Origin of Music Categories." The Guardian (August 25, 2011)

Mayer, Jane. "In New Political Warfare, 'Armies Of Video Trackers' Swarm Candidates." Fresh Air (May 26, 2016)

Mayer, Sophie. "The Punk Singer: How To Be a Rebel Girl." The F Word (May 13, 2014)

McChesney, Bob. "The Crisis in Journalism and Democracy." History for the Future (March 23, 2010)

McChesney, Robert W. and John Nichols.  "The Bull Market: Political Advertising." Monthly Review 63.11 (April 2012)

McGuire, Randall. "Introduction." Archaeology as Political Action. Berkeley: University of California, 2008: 12-50.

McKormack, Owen. "Columbus Day and the Sanitization of History." TruthOut (October 12, 2014)

McLean, Bethany. "A Hidden History of the Economic Crisis." RSA (December 2, 2010)

McLemee, Scott. "CLR James and African American Liberation." We Are Many (June 18, 2009)

Mearsheimer, John and Robert Pape. "The War in Iraq and America's Role in the World." CHIASMOS (April 17, 2003)

Mechanic, Mike. "A Sneak Peek at Eric Schlosser's Terrifying New Book on Nuclear Weapons: His six-year investigation of America's mishaps and near-misses will scare the daylights out of you." Mother Jones (September 15, 2013)

Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. Souvenir Press Ltd., 1974.

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney Childhood and Corporate Power (USA: Daniel Picker, 2002: 52 mins)

Miller, Mark Crispin. "Propaganda 101." History Counts (July 4, 2010)

Milton, Giles. "The History of British Spying in Revolutionary Russia." Lapham's Quarterly #61 (April 30, 2014)

Mitchell, W.J.T. "Iconology Today."  Cultural Technologies (April 12, 2012)

Morgan, Jason. "'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland." History for the Future (March 2, 2010)

Morley, David and Bill Schwarz. "Stuart Hall obituary: Influential cultural theorist, campaigner and founding editor of the New Left Review." The Guardian (February 10, 2014)

Morris, Earl. "The Unknown Known: Errol Morris’ New Doc Tackles Unrepentant Iraq War Architect Donald Rumsfeld." Democracy Now (March 27, 2014)

---. "A Wilderness of Errors." On the Media (September 21, 2012)


Morrison, Toni. "The origins of prejudice: An examination of America’s racial imagination." Prospect (August 11, 2017)

Moulton, Gary. "Lewis and Clark's New Look." The UO Channel (November 4, 2004) ["This lecture will explore new ways of judging the characters and personalities of the leading figures of the Corps of Discovery–Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea–in light of new research. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska and editor of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition."]

Muldowney, Decca. "Info Wars: Inside the Left’s Online Efforts to Out White Supremacists." Pro Publica (October 30, 2017)

Nace, Ted. Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005.

National Security Archive ["An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States. The Archive won the 1999 George Polk Award, one of U.S. journalism's most prestigious prizes, for--in the words of the citation--"piercing the self-serving veils of government secrecy, guiding journalists in the search for the truth and informing us all." The Archive obtains its materials through a variety of methods, including the Freedom of Information act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. Archive staff members systematically track U.S. government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have never been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision-making process of the U.S. government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions. The Archive regularly publishes portions of its collections on microfiche, the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, and in books. The Washington Journalism Review called these publications, collectively totaling more than 500,000 pages, "a state-of-the-art index to history." The Archive's World Wide Web site, www.nsarchive.org, has won numerous awards, including USA Today's "Hot Site" designation. As a part of its mission to broaden access to the historical record, the Archive is also a leading advocate and user of the Freedom of Information Act. Precedent-setting Archive lawsuits have brought into the public domain new materials on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran-Contra Affair, and other issues that have changed the way scholars interpret those events. The Archive spearheaded the groundbreaking legal effort to preserve millions of pages of White House e-mail records that were created during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. The Archive's mission of guaranteeing the public's right to know extends to other countries outside the United States. The organization is currently involved in efforts to sponsor freedom of information legislation in the nations of Central Europe, Central and South America and elsewhere, and is committed to finding ways to provide technical and other services that will allow archives and libraries overseas to introduce appropriate records management systems into their respective institutions. The Archive's $2.5 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues, contributions from individuals and grants from foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. As a matter of policy, the Archive seeks no U.S. government funding."]

Naureckas, Jim. "No, US Didn't 'Stand By' Indonesian Genocide - It Actively Participated." Monthly Review (October 20, 2017)

Nelson, Glenn. "Liz 'Snorkel' Thomas Wants You to Thru-Hike Your City." Outside (September 19, 2017) ["The former fastest woman to hike the AT is stitching together ambitious routes right in the middle of urban civilization."]

Nelson, Julie A. "Husbandry: A feminist reclamation of men’s responsibility to care." Transformation (May 31, 2016)

"Neoconservative Think Tank Influence on US Policies." History Commons (Ongoing Historical Timeline)

Newell-Hanson, Alice. "Rediscovered photos of the 70s hollywood skate scene: Take a trip into a world of tube socks, short shorts and empty swimming pools." i-D (August 12, 2015)

Nicholls, Tracey. "Frantz Fanon (1925—1961)." The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (September 21, 2011) ["Frantz Fanon was one of a few extraordinary thinkers supporting the decolonization struggles occurring after World War II, and he remains among the most widely read and influential of these voices.  His brief life was notable both for his whole-hearted engagement in the independence struggle the Algerian people waged against France and for his astute, passionate analyses of the human impulse towards freedom in the colonial context.  His written works have become central texts in Africana thought, in large part because of their attention to the roles hybridity and creolization can play in forming humanist, anti-colonial cultures."]

Nightingale, Andrea. "Epicurus and Epicureanism." Entitled Opinions (November 8, 2005)

Noisecat, Julian Brave and Anne Spice. "A History and Future of Resistance: The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession and capitalist expansionism." Jacobin (September 8, 2016)

Nordlinger, Jay. "Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World." After Words (May 27, 2012)

Noujaim, Jehane. "The Square: Jehane Noujaim’s New Film Captures Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution After Mubarak’s Fall." Democracy Now (January 25, 2014)

Occupy! N + 1 (October 2011)

O'Cleary, Conor. "Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union." After Words (December 24, 2011)

Oliver, Paul. "Michel Foucault - The Development of Knowledge." Excerpt from Foucault: The Key Ideas. Blacklick, OH: McGraw Hill, 2010: 17-21.

The Panama Papers: Politicians, Criminals, and the Rogue Industry That Hides Their Cash The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (Ongoing Archive)

Parenti, Michael. "Executive Power and Democratic Needs." Unwelcome Guests #5 (April 5, 2000)

---. "Globalization: The New Imperialism." Unwelcome Guests (March 22, 2000)

---. "The Sword and the Dollar." Unwelcome Guests #4 (April 5, 2000)

Parry, Tyler. "Black Radicalism and the 'Tuition-Free' University." Black Perspectives (October 12, 2017)

Paxton, Robert O. "The Truth About the Resistance." The New York Review of Books (February 25, 2016)

Peebles, Stacey. "Stories from the Suck: The First Wave of Iraq War Narratives." Berfois (April 15, 2011)

Pekron, Rebecca. "The Life and Work of Arthur Rimbaud." Entitled Opinions (June 8, 2016)

Penny, Laurie. "Let’s not abolish sex work. Let’s abolish all work." The New Statesman (May 26, 2016)

Perlstein, Rick. "Chicago History Repeats Itself As Cops and Protesters Clash." Rolling Stone (May 21, 2012)

Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Berrett- Koehler, 2004.

Peter, Justin "The Idealist Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself?" Slate (February 7, 2013)

Pierson, Inga. "Mary Shelley's 1818 Novel Frankenstein." Entitled Opinions (June 29, 2016)

Piketty, Thomas.  "From the Introduction to Capital in the Twenty-First Century." (Harvard UP, 2014: posted on Harvard University Press website - for an archive of resources and reports on the book visit Harvard University Press)

Pinckney, Darryl. "Black Lives and the Police." The New York Review of Books (August 18, 2016)

Pinker, Steven. "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined." Radio Open Source (March 10. 2014)

Pinter, Harold. "Art, Truth and Politics." Nobel Prize (The 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature speech)

Pitzer, Andrea. "Trotsky's Canadian Holiday." Lapham's Quarterly (May 6, 2014)

Poitras, Laura and Edward Snowden. "Edward Snowden Responds to Critics." The Brian Lehrer Show (March 18, 2016)

Pollitt, Katha. "Birth Control: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." The Nation (August 15, 2011)

"Protest Music." To the Best of Our Knowledge (March 6, 2016) ["Music and social change go hand in hand. We explore the secret history of protest music. Songs and social movements you might have missed -- from the early days of rock and roll to the non-violent hip hop message of FM Supreme."]

Publius, Gaius. "Defining Neoliberalism." Naked Capitalism (October 28, 2017)

Puerto Rico Syllabus: Essential tools for critical thinking about the Puerto Rican debt crisis (Ongoing Archive)

Quinones, Sam. "Cultural History of the Opiate Epidemic." Radio West (October 27, 2017) ["The journalist Sam Quinones has called opiate addiction “the closest thing to enslavement that we have in America today.” It’s a scourge fueled by pharmaceutical companies and drug cartels, and it takes advantage of some heavy cultural baggage on either side of the border. Poor people in Mexico are looking for a leg up, while disaffected people in the world’s richest country just want to check out. Quinones joins us to discuss the culture of the opiate epidemic."]

Rampton, Sheldon. "Books on Propaganda." PR Watch (July 7, 2009)

Ransby, Barbara. "Remembering the Overlooked Life of Eslanda Robeson, Wife of Civil Rights Legend Paul Robeson." Democracy Now (February 12, 2013)

Ratner, Michael. "Ten Years after 9/11: War, Operation American Condor (Guantanamo) , Civil Liberties and Hope." Law and Disorder Radio (July 25, 2011)

Ravitch, Diane. "Public Schools for Sale." Moyers & Co. (March 28, 2014)

Rediker, Marcus. "The Slave Ship." History for the Future (May 18, 2010)

Rich, Adrienne. "Adrienne Rich with Carol Muske Dukes." Lannan (September 29, 1999) ["Adrienne Rich received the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1951 (from judge W. H. Auden), at the age of 21, and with strength and conviction has not stopped writing since in her distinct voice. Rich has said that her poetry seeks to create a dialectical relationship between “the personal, or lyric voice, and the so-called political—really, the voice of the individual speaking not just to herself, or to a beloved friend, but to and from a collective, a social realm.” Her National Book Critics’ Circle Award citation explains: “Rich has captured with subversive wit, compassion, precision, supple poetics, toughness and yes, opposition and resistance, what life has been like in the opening years of a new century.” She is the author of more than sixteen volumes of poetry, including, Diving into the Wreck, The Dream of a Common Language, The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950—2001, An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988—1991, Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991—1995, Midnight Salvage, Fox, and The School Among the Ruins, as well as the prose book Of Woman Born. Rich’s newest book of poems is Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (2007). Her new collection of essays, A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, was published in May 2009."]
Rich, Nathaniel. "Authenticity All Right: Lee Friedlander’s New Orleans." New York Review of Books (May 16, 2014)

Richardson. Reed. "Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens." FAIR (September 28. 2017)

Richter, Brent. "Culture warrior - How anthropology can save the world." North Shore News (September 10, 2016) [Wade Davis: "“The great revelation of anthropology was that the world that you’re born into is just one model of reality, the consequence of one set of choices your cultural lineage made, however successfully,” Davis said. “The other peoples of the world remind us there are other ways of thinking, other ways of being, other ways of orienting yourself in social, physical, even spiritual space.”]

Richman, Joe and Bridgette McGee-Robinson. "The Story of Willie McGhee." Re:sound (2010)

Rickford, Russell. "The Taming of Muhammad Ali." AAIHS (June 22, 2016)

Robb, Graham. "Paris: 18 Arrested Explosions." Radio Open Source (May 7, 2010)

Rockhill, Gabriel. "Is 'Democracy' a Distraction?" Against the Grain (October 3, 2017) ["Gabriel Rockhill discusses some of the key conjunctures in the history of democracy; he also asserts that a focus on democracy may actually distract us from the task of building a just society."]

Rodriguez, Rocky. "Can Theatre Change Your Mind?" Open Democracy (October 17, 2017) [A powerful piece on the possibilities of theater, and all of the arts, to help us recognize our confirmation biases and to transform our lives - highly recommended, please share with performance creatives and the supporters of their efforts.  What would it be like if we were able to work to truly make performances/art like this?:  "The highest form of art is the creation of community—worker-to-worker, person-to-person, friend to friend. Real learning—the only kind that counters bias—happens only when people are open with each-other in a trusted environment, where they can develop authentic relationships."]

Rohr, Richard. "The Activists Guide to Contemplation." Sojourners (May 23, 2016)

Rosen, Jay. "The View From Nowhere: Questions and Answers." Press Think (November 10, 2010)

---. "Why Political Coverage is Broken." Press Think (August 26, 2011)

Rosenbaum, Ron. "What the JFK Conspiracy Theories Say About Us." On the Media (October 27, 2017) ["Thousands of previously classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released this week, while President Trump ordered a review of a few hundred files that were withheld for national security concerns. The document release has been anticipated by conspiracy theorists who still question whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in November 1963, and why. Brooke speaks with journalist Ron Rosenbaum about his long-time interest in the case and how 50 years of searching for answers has changed the "landscape of the American mind.""]

Rosenfeld, Seth. "A Secret History of America in the Sixties." Excerpt from Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012: 7-8.

---. "Spies in the Hill." Excerpt from Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012: 11-27.

---. "'Subversives': How the FBI Fought the 1960s Student Movement and Aided Reagan’s Rise to Power." (August 23, 2012)

Rosenzweig, Roy. "Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet." The American Historical Review (December 1998: 1530-1552)

Rothenberg, David and Heather Ann Thompson. "45 Years After Legendary Attica Prison Uprising, New Book Reveals State Role in Deadly Standoff." Democracy Now (September 9, 2016) ["Today prisoners in at least 24 states are set to participate in a nationally coordinated strike that comes on the 45th anniversary of the prison uprising at Attica. Much like the prisoners who took over New York’s infamous correctional facility in 1971, they are protesting long-term isolation, inadequate healthcare, overcrowding, violent attacks and slave labor. We speak with the author of an explosive new book about the four-day standoff, when unarmed prisoners held 39 prison guards hostage, that ended when armed state troopers raided the prison and shot indiscriminately more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition. In the end, 39 men would die, including 29 prisoners and 10 guards. We are also joined by David Rothenberg, who was a member of the Attica observers’ committee that was brought into Attica to negotiate on behalf of prisoners. He is founder of The Fortune Society."]

Rubenstein, Richard L. The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future. NY: Harper Colophon, 1978. [excerpts from pages 15-33]

Rushkoff, Douglas. "They Say." (Excerpt from Coercion: Why We Listen to What 'They' Say.: 1999)

Ryle, Gerald. "Behind the Panama Papers." On the Media (April 6, 2016) ["The Panama Papers is by sheer volume of documents the largest whistle-blower leak in history. With over 100 news organizations from over 80 countries involved it is also the largest journalistic collaboration ever."]

Sainath, Palagummi.  "Imprisoned by Profit: Media & Democracy." Ideas (May 27, 2016) 

Saudi Arabia Uncovered (Frontline documentary: March 29, 2016)

Scahill, Jeremy. "The Dangerous US Game in Yemen." The Nation (March 31, 2011)

Schlosser, Eric. "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety." Book TV (October 6, 2013) ["Using recently declassified documents, Eric Schlosser details the ease with which an accident can occur when handling nuclear weapons and how little control military leaders and missile designers have over them. He speaks with Lynn Davis, the former U.S. undersecretary for arms control and the director of the RAND corporation's Washington office."]

Schnapp, Jeffrey. "The Phenomenon of Crowds." Entitled Opinions (November 29, 2005)

Schraeder, Paul. "Canon Fodder: As the sun finally sets on the century of cinema, by what criteria do we determine its masterworks?" Film Comment (September/October 2006)

Schulman, Sarah. "AIDs and Gentrification." Against the Grain (November 20, 2012)

Schulte, Elizabeth. "Eugene Debs and American Socialism." We are Many (June 18, 2009)

Schwarz, Gabrielle. "A Calling of the Ancestors; Jill Soloway's I Love Dick." Another Gaze (September 20, 2017)

"Science and Technology." Dialogic Cinephilia (2016)

Seal, Kevin. "News of the Occupation: Occupiers Past and Present – Oakland Union of the Homeless." The Occupied Oakland Journal (November 17, 2011)

Segura, Liliana. "Pfizer's Death Penalty Ban Highlights the Black Market in Execution Drugs." The Intercept (May 19, 2016)

Sessions, David. "The Radical Hopes of the Russian Revolution." The New Republic (September 20, 2017)

"Sex/Sexuality/Relationships (Ongoing Archive)." Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Shah, Anup. "Global Financial Crisis." Global Issues (March 24, 2013)

Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. "How to Think About Science #1: Leviathan and the Air Pump Ideas (January 2, 2009)

Shaw, John. "The problem of the poor: faith, science and poverty in 19th century Britain." The National Archives Podcast Series (September 28, 2006)

Sheehan, Thomas. "On the Historical Jesus." Entitled Opinions (January 31, 2006)

Shelton, Taylor. "Locked Out: Foreclosure, Eviction and Housing Instability in Lexington, 2005 - 2016." Lexington Fair Housing Council (October 2017)

Shiva, Vandana. Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000: 5-20.

Sifton, John. "A Brief History of Drones." The Nation (February 27, 2012)

Sisk-Franco, Caleen. "The War Dance of the Winnemem Wintu." Making Contact (May 13, 2009)

Sluga, Hans. "The Life and Work of Michel Foucault." Entitled Opinions (April 18, 2012)

Smith, Jordan Michael. "Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change." The Boston Globe (October 19, 2014)

Smith, David Livingstone. "Less Than Human: The Psychology of Cruelty." Talk of the Nation (March 29, 2011)

Smith, Zadie. "Generation Why?" The New York Review of Books (November 25, 2010)

Solnit, David and Ananda Tan. "The Battle of Seattle 10 Years Later: Organizers Reflect on 1999 Shutdown of WTO Talks and the Birth of a Movement." Democracy Now (November 30, 2009)

"The Soundtrack to War and Peace." To the Best of Our Knowledge (October 1, 2010)

Sparrow, Taylor. "Thinking More Than The State Allows: Radical Politics In These Troublingly Quiet Times." People of Color Organize! (February 19, 2011)

Speri, Alice. "Myth of the Ferguson Effect is Hard to Kill." The Intercept (May 12, 2016)

Stark, Kid. "Stranger Studies 101: Cities as Interaction Machines." The Atlantic (September 1, 2010)

Steger, Manfred B. and Roy K. Ravi. A Very Short Introduction to Neoliberalism. Oxfrod University Press, 2010.

Stevenson, Bryan and Malcolm Suber. "Monumental Questions." On the Media (October 31, 2017) ["Speaking this week on Fox News, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly warned against the removal of Confederate monuments on the grounds that it would erase important history. But the statues in question have never been about preserving a neutral version of history but rather about perpetuating a series of narratives and myths about slavery and the Civil War. Earlier this year we spoke to Malcolm Suber, historian and co-founder of the group Take 'Em Down NOLA, about the significance of removing monuments to white supremacy. And we spoke to Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about his work documenting the thousands of lynchings that took place in the South from 1877 to 1950, and the significance of remember and reckoning with the realities of our shameful past."]

Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. "Paying Respects, Pentagon Revives Vietnam, and War Over Truth." The New York Times (October 9, 2014)

Stone, Oliver. "Untold History of the United States: WWII." Showtime (Posted on Youtube: 2012)

"The Stories We Tell: Ways of Seeing." Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Stout, Robert Joe. "Do the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War to Succeed." Monthly Review (January 1, 2012)

Sturken, Marita. "Conversations with the Dead: Bearing Witness in the AIDS Memorial Quilt." Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering. University of California Press, 1997: 183-219.

--- . "Excerpt of Chapter One from Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering." The New York Times (1997)

---. "Introduction." Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering. University of California Press, 1997: 3-17.

Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright. "Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire." Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford University Press, 2001: 189-236.

---. "Practices of Looking: Images, Power and Politics." Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford University Press, 2001:10-44; 56-71.

---. "Scientific Looking, Looking at Science." Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford University Press, 2001: 279-314.

---. "Spectatorship, Power and Knowledge." Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. Oxford University Press, 2001: 72-108.

Suchland, Jennifer and Jennifer Wilson. "Black October: An Introduction." Black Perspectives (October 30, 2017) 

Swanson, David. "Iraq War Among World's Worst Events." War is a Crime (March 2013)

T., Sarah. "'Language Orthodoxy,' the Adichie Wars, and Western Feminism's Enduring Myopia." The Rumpus (April 6, 2017)

---. "The Lens Magnifies, The Mirror Reflects: What Photos From the Race War Shows Us About Ourselves." The Rumpus (September 25, 2017)

Tabbi, Matt. "The Hunters and the Hunted: Seth Rosenfeld's Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power." The New York Times (October 5, 2012)

---. "I Can't Breathe." On the Media (October 27, 2017) ["On July 17, 2014 Eric Garner died at the hands of a police officer on a Staten Island sidewalk, launching a frenzy of media coverage and questions over police brutality, the criminal justice system and America's ongoing struggle with race. Years later, the media attention is gone and the questions remain. In his new book, I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, journalist Matt Taibbi explores the life and death of Eric Garner and examines what his story can teach us about the realities of policing, race and justice in America."]

Taxi To the Dark Side (USA: Alex Gibney, 2007: 106 mins) ["Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.S. policy toward suspects in the war on terror. Soldiers, their attorneys, one released detainee, U.S. Attorney John Yoo, news footage and photos tell a story of abuse at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. From Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzalez came unwritten orders to use any means necessary. The CIA and soldiers with little training used sleep deprivation, sexual assault, stress positions, waterboarding, dogs and other terror tactics to seek information from detainees. Many speakers lament the loss of American ideals in pursuit of security."]

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. "The Struggle for Black Liberation: Beyond 2016 Election & Establishment Politics." Shadowproof (May 1, 2016)

Theoharis, Jeanne. "On Rosa Parks’ 100th Birthday, Recalling Her Rebellious Life Before and After the Montgomery Bus." Democracy Now (February 4, 2013)

Theriault, Anne. "The Real Reason Women Love Witches." The Establishment (July 20, 2016)

"Timbuktu's 'Badass Librarians': Checking Out Books Under Al-Qaida's Nose." All Things Considered (April 23, 2016)

Tippett, Krista. "The Mystery and Art of Living." On Being (May 5, 2016) ["Writer and traveler Pico Iyer turns the tables on our host Krista Tippett by asking her the questions. Her latest book, Becoming Wise, chronicles what she’s learned through her conversations with the most extraordinary voices across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations. An illuminating conversation on the mystery and art of living."]

Torre, Miguel de la. "Dumping Satan: It’s Time to Let Go." Religion Dispatches (October 26, 2011)

"The Torture Question." Frontline (PBS: October 18, 2005)

Turse, Nick. "From Niger to Somalia, U.S. Military Expansion in Africa Helps Terror Groups Recruit." Democracy Now (October 27, 2017) ["As U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley travels in Africa and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a classified briefing Thursday with Pentagon officials on the deadly ambush in Niger, where five Nigerien soldiers were killed along with four U.S. soldiers, we speak with reporter Nick Turse, who says U.S. military activity in Africa is a recruiting tool for terror groups."]

---.  "Kill Anything That Moves: New Book Exposes Hidden Crimes of the War Kerry, Hagel Fought in Vietnam." Democracy Now (January 15, 2013)

Varon, Jeremy. "Armed Struggle and the New Left." Against the Grain (September 28, 2011)

Venables, Robert. "Who Are These People?(The Onondaga Nation Encounters European Settlers)." Unwelcome Guests #302 (April 16, 2006)

Vitkovskaya, Julie. "What are ‘black sites?’ 6 key things to know about the CIA’s secret prisons overseas." The Washington Post (January 25, 2017)

Vizcarrondo, Sara. "The Legend of Pat Tillman: Deconstructing a Military Myth." International Documentary Association (August 20, 2010)

Walker, Alice. "Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution." Monthly Review (February 2, 2013)

Wallerstein, Immanuel. "Structural Crisis in the World-System: Where Do We Go from Here?" Monthly Review (March 2011)

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (USA: Robert Greenwald, 2013: 67 mins) ["War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State highlights four cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and took to the media to expose the fraud and abuse."]

Waxman, Zoe. "Words of Pain: Interpreting Personal Memories of the Holocaust." Backdoor Broadcasting Company (January 27, 2011)

Weinberg, Meyer. A Short History of American Capitalism. New History Press, 2003.

White, Rob. "Interview with Göran Hugo Olsson." Film Quarterly (Winter 2011)

Wilkerson, Isabel. "Isabel Wilkerson’s Leaderless March that Remade America." Open Source (October 12, 2010)

Wolff, Richard D. "The Continuing Economic Crisis." History for the Future (May 31, 2011)

---. "Housing and the Economy." History for the Future (September 14, 2010)

---. "Jettisoning Accustomed Categories of Thought (Marxian Class Analysis 2) Unwelcome Guests #625 (October 13, 2012)

Wright, Ann and Ed Kinane. "Drones on Trial: 38 Protesters Face Charges for Disrupting Syracuse Base Used in Overseas Attacks." Democracy Now (November 4, 2011)

Yoshioka, Maximilian. "History or Humanity? On Lu Chuan's City of Life and Death A Nietzschean Perspective on Nanjing." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

Yue, Genevieve. "The Curtain’s Undrawn: An Interview with Olivier Assayas on Carlos." Senses of Cinema #57 (2010)

Wade, Lisa. "History Repeating Itself: Discriminatory Voting Laws." Sociological Images (July 1, 2013)

Wagner, Alex. "The Justices of Last Resort: Congress can't act, and the presidency is up against its limits—leaving only the Supreme Court to step in." The Atlantic (June 22, 2016)

Wall, Richard. "Who's Afraid of Noam Chomsky?" Lew Rockwell (2004)

Walls, Laura Dassow. "The Life of Henry David Thoreau." Radio West (October 13, 2017) ["Henry David Thoreau famously went to Walden Pond to “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.” But as the scholar Laura Dassow Walls shows in a new biography, there was much more to Thoreau’s life and work than his brief experiment at Spartan living in the woods. He was an inventor, a manual laborer, a gifted naturalist, a writer of great originality, and an uncompromising abolitionist. Walls joins us Monday to explore Thoreau’s profound, complex, and influential life."]

Webb, Laura. "Landmarks and memory: On the “When separate is not equal” bus." North of Center (November 7, 2012)

Warren, Vincent. "Abu Ghraib 10 Years Later: Challenging Corporate Impunity for Torture." Truthout (April 28, 2014)

Weinberg, Meyer. A Short History of American Capitalism. New History Press, 2003.

Werner, Angela. "In 'Wet Kiss' for Wall Street, Congress Overturns Rules Allowing People to Sue Banks for Misconduct." Democracy Now (October 26, 2017) ["After nine months of struggling to deliver on their legislative priorities, Senate Republicans found unity Tuesday when they overturned a rule that makes it easier for Americans to sue banks and credit card companies. The rule was developed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and would have allowed people to file class action lawsuits that could have cost the banks billions of dollars."]

West, Cornel. "Black Prophetic Fire: Cornel West on the Revolutionary Legacy of Leading African-American Voices." Democracy Now (October 6, 2014)

Westphal, Kyle. "Invasion of the Aspect Ratios." Northwest Chicago Film Society (July 2, 2012)

Whitehead, John W. "Patriots and Protesters Should Take a Knee for the Constitution." Counterpunch (September 27, 2017)

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