In his new book Dancing in the Dark, a cultural history of America during the Depression, Morris Dickstein writes:
The arts bound people together in a collaborative effort to interpret and alleviate their plight.
But he notes:
A culture’s forms of escape, if they can be called escape, are as significant and revealing as its social criticism.
(Reviewed here.)
Most people don’t realize how much progress we’ve made on climate change
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This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections
The year was 2015. ‘Uptown Funk’ with Bruno Mars was at the top of the
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