Author Archives: Jonathan Mok

The Talk of the Town: What is Education for?

We want to decide what our children should learn...
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A Non-Political Israeli Film?-Interview With The Paz Brothers

'The Israeli Cinema is heading to a great place in World Cinema.’
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Rinus Van de Velde on being “friends” with Vladimir Mayakovsky

"I think today this heroical status is completely unthinkable for an artist."
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Inspired by Nazi horror: an interview with Gregory Forstner

"There came massacre scenes, but with joyful feelings."
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Victoria Clark talks Yemen and the West

What interests me is not so much ancient history as the profound connections between two of those taboo dinner-party subjects: religion and politics.
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Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: interview with Jeffrey Herf

"Fisk repeats the apologia of those Arabs in Berlin...who collaborated with the Nazis"
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Homa Katouzian: how the West should deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions

"Even a nuclear Iran could not initiate a war with Israel."
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“Genocide Before the Holocaust” doesn’t deliver

Ukraine's Great Famine in particular deserved a closer look here.
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Piotr Andreszewski in Carnegie Hall: an interview and review

"The most challenging was the Schumann piece, by far."
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Spies: The KGB in the United States

"There is a widespread misunderstanding about Joseph McCarthy’s role in bringing Soviet espionage to the attention of the public."
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