Arts & Culture

Film

The Center Cannot Hold

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Dec 6, 2024 The personal is political in the Iranian drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Opinion

All the World’s America’s Stage — Even Ancient Rome

Jessica Clarke / History News Network Dec 6, 2024 The story of an escaped gladiator provides an excellent opportunity for Hollywood filmmakers to relitigate the particulars of U.S. history. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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Exile’s Eye

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Dec 4, 2024 To understand the pain of deracination, Raoul Peck resurrects the legacy of apartheid-era photographer Ernest Cole. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Book Excerpt

The Case for Digital Degrowth

Michael Kwet / Truthdig Nov 29, 2024 AI and data center energy consumption has been overhyped. Greening the digital society requires confronting deeper structural problems. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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Intrepid Exile Mohammad Rasoulof Thwarts the Theocracy

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Nov 26, 2024 Iran’s outcast artist on the “gangsters of culture” and making movies under the mullahs’ noses. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

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Behold a Winged Horse

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Nov 25, 2024 In “Surveilled,” Ronan Farrow investigates Pegasus, the world’s most infamous spyware. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Books

‘Keep Her Body from Pain and Her Mind from Worry’

Stephanie Gorton / History News Network Nov 22, 2024 A history of the birth-control movement in literature. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

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Ken Burns Does Da Vinci

Ed Rampell / Truthdig Nov 15, 2024 A chronicler of Americana takes on the towering genius of 15th century Italy. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

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‘Unalived’ by a Thousand Cuts

Jim Knipfel / Truthdig Nov 14, 2024 The language is always evolving, but will mainstreaming evermore hypersensitive euphemisms for “death” really keep the Grim Reaper at bay? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Books

‘The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World’

Peter Taylor / NACLA Nov 1, 2024 Chomsky and Robinson’s new critical survey of American foreign policy seeks to dispel the myth that the United States is devoted to promoting democracy and human rights. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Film

What Quiet Meditation on an Eastern Himalayan Moth Can Teach Us

Bedatri D. Choudhury / Truthdig Nov 1, 2024 Two Indian filmmakers on the importance of looking at the world with more attention and hearing with more intent. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

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Boogey, Man!: Resurrecting Our All Hallows Eve Top 40

Jim Knipfel / Truthdig Oct 31, 2024 The definitive Halloween soundtrack (that doesn’t include “Monster Mash"). Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )