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A determination to do better. can you say that you feel optimistic about the human condition or not? depends on the day. some days i feel great, when i read such wonderful things during covid — what people did for each other, how they helped each other and so forth — and then i turned the channel and somebody�*s killed somebody else and so forth and so on. very... but ill tell you what. without hope, itd be hard to wake up in the morning. so, yes, i have hope. i do. i have hope. from the f...

>> are you kidding? >> what i find so special about cassavetes is exploration of relationships. his passion for the human condition and how we interact with one another. >> come over here. >> cassavetes crafted this company of actors that always worked together so you could see the support that it gave. his film making. he worked with peter faulk. ben gazara. he was married to jenna rowlands. and i dont think you would have cassavetes without jenna rowlands. >> jenna rowlands has an incredible p...

Was it an occupation of our public space, or was it a reclamation of our public space from governmental and corporate dominance?

Racism so embedded in latin life, period? >> the legacy of the caste system is a horrible one. >> it might be a human condition. it is a human condition of colonization. >> yes, it is colonization that still exists in our mind. so, the caste system is something that has been outlawed for centuries. now. but the colonizers tell us, you have to be lighter skin to be more beautiful. and the things that we dont realize what we are actually say. we are still seeing that white people are better than u...

As the BFI dedicates its latest film season to Kinuyo Tanaka, we highlight five vital tales of female agency and desire by one of the country’s first-ever female auteurs

Complex, complicated subject. we all know that there is in opinion, very widespread, that artists are to confine themselves to their art and leave politics to the politicians. thats very well known. i dont see this specific case of war, whether its ukraine or any war for that matter, as a question of politics. for me, politics is a natural political process that exists in society, any society, every single day. here, we are talking about life and death. what does art deal with if not that? any w...

From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel

The abortion debate has been irreversibly altered by the partisan biopolitics of COVID

Nathan Walton & The Remedy is led by a one-time “American Idol” contestant; the upcoming albums are a follow up to the 2021 debut work.

Podcast. here is the harsh truth. slavery was a constant of the human condition. it is not what shaped the united states of america. it makes it no less unforgivable, makes it no less a sin but it is not what makes us different. what made the united states of america different, in particular what made jefferson and madison different their ability to recognize eternal human rights and codify them for the first time in human history, in some genius document, the constitution of the united states a...