Click Here to Read: Spike Lee and the Battlefield of American History with his new film, the peerless American filmmaker — self-isolating and eflective in New York — unsettles past and present conflicts by By Reggie Ugwu in the New York Times on May 21, 2020.
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Category: Politics
Therapy saved a refugee child. Fifty years on, he’s leading a mental health revolution
Click Here to Read: Therapy saved a refugee child. Fifty years on, he’s leading a mental health revolution: Psychologist Peter Fonagy tells of his own struggles in early life as the Anna Freud charity that he heads opens a major new centre for traumatised children by Jamie Doward and Sam Hall on the Guardian website on April 27, 2019.
Peter Fonagy. Image: Cfonagy Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS doc
The China Question
Click Here to Read: The China Question: In matters of trade and manufacturing, the United States has not been the naive victim of cunning Chinese masterminds. We asked for this by Michael Lind on the Tablet website on May 19, 2020.
Continuing discussions about the trade relationship between the United States and China, USTR Robert Lighthizer leads the United States delegation in principal-level trade meetings with officials from China, led by Vice Premier Liu He. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
What a Difference a ‘J’ Makes
ClicK Here to Read: What a Difference a ‘J’ Makes: The history of religious identification in military insignia—and how Jewish symbols evolved
by Jenna Weissman Joselit on the Tablet Website on Mat 20, 2020.
Staff Sgt. Xhevair Maskuli, external influence analyst, Multi-National Corps-Iraq, follows along in the Jewish Prayer Book, Victory Chapel, Camp Victory, Sept. 11. Image: Pfc. Karin Leach. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Kafka, Kafka Everywhere
A Mighty Empire Brought Down by Plague
Click Here to Read: A Mighty Empire Brought Down by Plague: We have seen this story before, says Kyle Harper’s brilliant ‘The Fate of Rome’ BY Edward N. Luttwak on the Tablet website on May 6, 2020.
Image: Meister von San Vitale in Ravenna: Justinian I , San Vitale (Ravenna). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
