“Is it possible to change people and the world we live in? You tell me. Can we change ourselves? That’s why Aristophanes wrote {Lysistrata}. To get things moving, to make people care… to stop us sitting around, believing we can do nothing… We have to talk! Stop being so embarrassed and critical. People have to be able to talk. Don’t you understand that it’s we who make the world what it is?” – Flickorna (The Girls, 1968)
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Dorian, M.J. "The Origin of Art." Creative Codex #1 (August 18, 2018) ["Travel back 40,000 years to the first known art made by human hands. How did creativity begin? Why does 'art' exist?"]
Duff, Brian, et al. "Forest / Tree." Future Ecologies 6.1 (October 30, 2024) ["Season 6 kicks off in the deep dark woods: the simplified, post-industrial forests of the world — the only forests that many of us have ever known. Join us as we meet foresters in British Columbia, Vermont, and Scotland, all working to embrace the messy art of ecological forestry. Because if we want our forests to be old growth-ier, we might not be able to just wait and leave them alone. It might mean challenging some assumptions and getting out of our comfort zone, but that's what it'll take to see the forest for the trees."]
Gore, Gareth. "Gareth Gore Investigates: Opus Dei, Dark Money, and Global Deception." The Michael Shermer Show (December 3, 2024) ["Banco Popular, once a top global bank, collapsed unexpectedly in 2017. Investigative journalist Gareth Gore initially expected to find another case of capitalist greed, but instead uncovered a web of deception orchestrated by men linked to Opus Dei. Gore’s investigation revealed decades of hidden corruption, with Opus Dei using its control over the bank to amass wealth and spread its influence. Using access to insider accounts and bank records, Gore exposed how Opus Dei recruited vulnerable individuals—often children—into lives of servitude. His findings also unveiled Opus Dei’s financial ties to far-right movements, including its role in overturning Roe v. Wade, raising important questions about the forces shaping modern society. Shermer and Gore discuss Opus Dei’s role in the collapse of Banco Popular, its influence in politics, and the group’s history. They explore Opus Dei’s abusive practices, financial power, and efforts to spread its agenda, including through human trafficking and infiltration of institutions. Gore also explains its ties to the erosion of democracy and its influence on U.S. policies, from reproductive rights to LGBTQ+ issues."]
Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra. "The Substance is a Documentary." Film International (September 3, 2024) ["As far as emotional fidelity is concerned, The Substance is a documentary. No other film I have ever seen so perfectly captures my subjective experience of the culturally enforced dissociation that happens en masse when, as a woman, your body starts to age."]
Katz, Jonathan. "What the U.S. Did to Haiti." Current Affairs #354 (November 4, 2024) ["Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have recently been pushing vicious racist fake news about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, claiming they are stealing and eating people's pets and destroying the town. But why are there Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio in the first place? What role has U.S. foreign policy played in driving Haitians from Haiti? Today, we are joined by Jonathan Katz, one of the leading journalists writing about U.S. imperialism and a specialist in Haiti. Katz tells us about the history of U.S. relations with Haiti, common misconceptions about the country, and the deeper meaning of the Springfield pet-eating scare, and how it fits with longstanding racialized narratives about threatening Haitians. The former Port-au-Prince bureau chief for the Associated Press, Katz is the author of the books The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster and Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire. His newsletter can be found here. It is not a matter of whether the United States should get involved in Haiti following the first presidential assassination there in more than a century. The United States is already deeply involved. The questions are how that involvement helped, at a minimum, to set the stage for the crisis now enveloping a nation of 11.5 million people and what to do with that reality from here on out...Ever since Haiti won its independence from France in a slave revolution that culminated in 1804, the mere idea of a republic run by self-liberated Black people has sent shivers through the white world. -Jonathan Katz, "U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again," Foreign Policy (2021)."]
Khalil, Osamah. "Why America Perceives a 'World of Enemies.'" Current Affairs #356 (November 8, 2024) ["Osamah Khalil of Syracuse University is the author of A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden, a vital history of the wars of the last 50 years. Prof. Khalil shows how, from the Vietnam war to the present day, American leaders (and American pop culture) conjured a "world of enemies" in which force was preferable to diplomacy. A cast of rotating villains (from Ho Chi Minh to Saddam Hussein to Hamas) are treated as existential threats to freedom and democracy, and because they are monstrous they cannot be negotiated with and can only be destroyed. Prof. Khalil joins today to discuss his work, which argues that our militaristic attitude toward the rest of the world has also come to characterize domestic political discourse. "American militarism has not been limited to foreign battlefields. Politicians and policymakers have insisted that Americans are engaged in an existential struggle against foes seen and unseen, foreign and domestic. Thus, militarism has seeped into everyday American life as the United States has not settled for defeat or victory but for war as a permanent state." - Osamah F. Khalil"]
Kitty, Alexandra. "Objectivity in Journalism: Should We Be Skeptical?" Skeptic (November 7, 2013) ["The problem with assuming that emotional detachment somehow leads an observer to find the Truth, is that not all truths are built to last for eternity. Clifford Christians, a research professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana, notes “there isn’t an objective world that’s static, that exists outside of us” (Christians, 1997). Walter Harrington, a professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana, book author and long-time staff writer for the Washington Post magazine, adds, “We have a physical world that exists out there. We have a number of what the Dow is and to report the Dow constantly and uncritically is to not stop and explain to people how the Dow is constructed, how it has been changed over the years, how its alteration shapes its outcome and how the Dow parses with other measures. When we accept something as a piece of objective fact, usually it’s time to start saying ‘Well, wait a minute, it’s time to start looking at that.’ Because once anything is accepted as being a fact that we no longer question, doubt or evaluate, I think that you’re going into dangerous territory” (Harrington, 1997)."]
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. "Tower of Babel." The Ancients (November 23, 2024) ["The Tower of Babel story is iconic. Featured in the Book of Genesis, it explains how different languages came to be across the world. But what are its origins? Join Tristan Hughes and Prof. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones in this special episode of The Ancients - recorded live at the London Podcast Festival - as they delve into the biblical roots of the myth and uncover the real archeological remains that inspired the fable. They explore how ancient ziggurats influenced depictions of the tower, discuss the intersection between history and faith and discover how age-old texts and modern archaeology combine to unravel the mysteries behind the story of the Tower of Babel."]
Maclay, Willow Catelyn. "Cracked Actor: Cary Grant." Metrograph (ND) ["Unraveling the coded queerness that animates the exuberant actor’s performances."]
Marx, Paris. "Data Vampires: Fighting for Control." Tech Won't Save Us (October 28, 2024) ["Tech billionaires are embracing extreme right-wing politics. It’s not just to enhance their power, but to try to realize a harmful vision for humanity’s future that could see humans merging with machines and possibly even living in computer simulations. Will we allow them to put our collective resources behind their science fiction dreams, or fight for a better future and a different kind of technology to go along with it?"]
Winter, Tim. "The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Islam." Past Present Future #153 (January 24, 2024) ["Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas explores the world-altering impact of Islam from the seventh century onwards. David talks to the leading Islamic scholar Tim Winter (Abdal Hakim Murad) about what changed – and what didn’t – with the appearance of Islamic law, Islamic culture and Islamic ideas of community. Was Islam really egalitarian? How could a universalist religion encompass so much variety? Why did it spread so fast? And what caused it to split so soon?"]
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