China proposes teaching masculinity to boys as state is alarmed by changing gender roles

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 8, 2021March 8, 2021 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: China proposes teaching masculinity to boys as state is alarmed by changing gender roles: Boys in China traditionally are expected to be strong leaders, get good grades and excel at sports. But the gender balance in China is changing.
The rising economic status of women has upended traditional ideas of masculinity in China. By Zixu Wang, Xin Chen and Caroline Radnofsky on the NBC news website on March 5, 2021.
Ying Yang. Image: Gregory Maxwell. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Nazi-looted Watercolor by Egon Schiele, Given to Artist’s Dentist as Payment, Will Be Returned to Heirs

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 8, 2021March 8, 2021 Arts, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Nazi-looted Watercolor by Egon Schiele, Given to Artist’s Dentist as Payment, Will Be Returned to Heirs. Germany’s advisory commission on Nazi-looted art also recommended the return of a painting by Erich Heckel to the heirs of Jewish journalist Max Fischer by Cassie Packard on the HyperAllergic website on March 5, 2021.
Crouching female nude with bended head by Egon Schiele, 1918. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 5, 2021March 5, 2021 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: 150 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg by Peter Schwarz on World Socialist Web Site on March 5, 2021.
Portrait of Rosa Luxemburg. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What Dignity Demands

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Books, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: What Dignity Demands : A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations by Brandon M. Terry in The New York Review of Books March 11, 2021 issue.

The Holocaust: Marxist and psychoanalytical approaches

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 1, 2021March 1, 2021 History, Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Holocaust: Marxist and psychoanalytical approaches by Sabby Sagall on the International Socialism Website in Issue: 169 Posted on February 27, 2021.

Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef: We spoke to the Microsoft cofounder about his new book, the limits of his optimism, the tech breakthroughs and energy policies we need—and how his thinking on climate change has evolved.
by James Temple on February 14, 2021.

JFK and the Rabbi

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Arts, History, Politics

Click Here to Read: JFK and the Rabbi: The Jewish story behind a towering statue of the president by Moshe Becker on the Tablet on February 12, 2021.