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Review of Virtual Theater: ‘Call Me Elizabeth’ Exploring a legend Movie aficionados are familiar with Elizabeth Taylor for her role as the queen of the Nile in the film “Cleopatra” (1963), for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf “(1966), an adaptation of Edward Albee’s 1962 play, and for both Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on the Hot Tin Roof” (1958) and “Suddenly, Last Summer” (1959). Furthermore, those who follow celebrity news are familiar with the violet-eyed actress from her tempestuous affair with Richard Burton, her scandalous marriage to Eddie Fisher, and her eight mar...

The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the "new middle class" in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era. "As accessible as it is acute, The Lonely Crowd is indis...

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. On Nov. 20, 1938, WMCA in New York had enough of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s anti-Semitic bile. After a supposed homily entitled “Persecution: Jewish and Christian,” in which he denounced Jews in language that might have been lifted from Der Stürmer, an announcer broke in to distance the station from Coughlin’s talk. “Unfortunat...

The Late ’30s Deplatforming of Father Coughlin Slate 1/21/2021 © Provided by Slate Father Charles E. Coughlin gives a radio broadcast. Bettmann/Getty Images On Nov. 20, 1938, WMCA in New York had enough of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s anti-Semitic bile. After a supposed homily entitled “Persecution: Jewish and Christian,” in which he denounced Jews in language that might have been lifted from Der Stürmer, an announcer broke in to distance the station from Coughlin’s talk. “Unfortunately, Father Coughlin has uttered many misstatements of fact,” he informed listeners. Donald...

Amit Chaudhuri on Satyajit Ray’s very Indian modernity: Not a ‘beginning’ as much as a ‘fruition’ His humanism was noted in his heyday, but the encounter with Indian modernity that watching his films constituted was hardly mentioned. Pather Panchali (1955) | Government of West Bengal It seems that there are all kinds of unresolved problems to do with Satyajit Ray – to do with thinking about him, with finding a language to speak about him that does not repeat the indubitable truisms about his humanism and lyricism. How does he fit into history, and into which his...