Bernie Sanders’ Momentum Is Real
Economist Richard Wolff made an excellent animation of a lecture on the origins of “class” as a concept. He explains that, as an economic precept, capitalism lasted a whole lot longer in America...
Category: North America
Review: A Spool of Blue Thread (Man Booker Longlist #1)
Baltimore is a city that I have never visited, despite frequent trips to the US (from my Australian home) in the 1990s. Yet, of all the places in the US I have never been, it sits alongside New...
Review – Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
One of the most hotly-anticipated offerings on Netflix this month is Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, a prequel to 2001’s bizarre cult hit, Wet Hot American Summer. It joins an army of...
Left Squeamishness Isn’t Helping Protect Abortion Rights
With this weekend marking the fourth release of a creatively edited video designed to make it look like Planned Parenthood sells off foetuses wholesale only to cackle over the proceeds in the...
The Man Booker Longlist 2015
The longlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize was announced Wednesday at midday London time. It’s a 13-book list with some interesting omissions, and possibly (although this is arguable) some emerging...
Transgender Reality? I Am Cait Premieres
On Sunday night, the US was treated to the first entry in the eight part docuseries I Am Cait, following Caitlyn Jenner’s first steps into the limelight post-transition. It’s perhaps not...
Bernie Sanders: The Serious Socialist Presidential Candidate
Running openly as a socialist member of the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders, who has been an independent socialist for some time, has found that the term may not be as toxic as he'd been led to...
Not a Joke: Why Donald Trump Might Be the Next Republican Candidate
When Donald Trump entered the 2016 presidential circus, it almost seemed like a joke, and his poll results reflected it, taking a nosedive almost immediately after his initial announcement. Those...
It’s Time To Stop Ghettoising Women’s Sports
The US National Women’s Team utterly routed their Japanese counterparts in the thrilling World Cup final in Vancouver on Sunday, making sports history. The women also made history for another...
Review: Slow West
Former Beta Band member turned director John Maclean’s debut feature, “Slow West” looks and feels like a random train of thought, a glorious meandering diversion from “The Assassination of...