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Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on women’s lives that became a touchstone to feminists. Mary Catherine Bateson at her home in New Hampshire in 2010. In “Composing a Life,” about the stop-and-start nature of women’s lives, she wrote of life “as an improvisatory art.”Credit...Trent Bell for The New York Times Published Jan. 14, 2021Updated Jan. 19, 2021 Mary Catherine Bateson, a cultural anthropologist who was the author of quietly groundbreak...

Newly Elected GOP Rep Says “Hitler Was Right About One Thing” A newly elected member of Congress is under fire for saying “Hitler was right about one thing!” during the protests against the Electoral College certification in Washington, D.C., on January 6. WCIA reported Representative Mary Miller (R-Ill.) was a speaking at a rally organized by the nonprofit group Moms for America. Miller said from prepared remarks, “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’” Her remarks were roundly condemned. “Hitler wasnâ€�...

Listen below, and go here for more: But perhaps that was thought to be too explicit. Some on the Left have settled on rewriting the story of the Pilgrims: they were not settlers, but instead “refugees” and “illegal immigrants,” as I wrote when describing the effort to Hispanicize Thanksgiving. Of course this is wrong, given that a country must already exist for the refugees or illegal immigrants to go to. But recasting the narrative that way enlists the Pilgrims as partners in The Great Replacement being orchestrated by today’s refugees and illegal aliens. How, the argument goes, ca...

'Fantasia,' 'Snow White,' Betty Boop, Popeye and the first golden age of animation Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation by Reid Mitenbuler. Illustrated. 411 pages. Atlantic Monthly Press. $28. by Jennifer Szalai (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- By the time Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” premiered at Manhattan’s Broadway Theater on Nov. 13, 1940, what had started out as an animated short to revive Mickey Mouse’s flagging career had become a feature-length extravaganza. Images in the movie channeled evolutionary theory and abstract art, depicting roaring dinosaurs...

  Hampton speaking to supporters. He had quite a few white radical admirers, including celebrities like Dr Benjamin Spock, a famous pediatrician and political activist seen here in the background.   Introduction Fifty-one years ago this past week, Illinois Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were slain by the Chicago police in a murderous pre-dawn raid. Over the next five decades the Hampton and Clark families, their lawyers, the Black Panther Party, movement activists, honest reporters and documentary filmmakers, and peoples’ historians have waged a continuous battle to unc...