Arts

KRS-One has been rapping since 1987 — three decades of expressing radical Black politics and not selling out. His new album Between Da Protests is a manifesto for Black Lives Matter.

It isn’t an out-of-control “woke mob” taking down innocent people—it’s a reckoning with decency.

The New Age 'Wellness' community with its reliance on pseudo-science and 'spiritual warfare' propaganda primed for a conspiracy theory like QAnon

"This feeling of zozobra is commonly experienced by people who visit or immigrate to a foreign country: the rhythms of life, the way people interact, everything just seems “off” – unfamiliar, disorienting and vaguely alienating."

"...while The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication."

"Vanity may well be part of hubris, but a more crucial sense of the word is terrible judgment, gross overconfidence, blindness, obtuseness, a failure to see what is staring you in the face..."

We're viscerally learning lessons about how damage done to the natural world will invariably blow back on us, whether in the form of disease or climate disruption or both.

"Beethoven’s music—its subversive, revolutionary, passionately democratic, and freedom-exalting nature."