* * * * * ANGELA DAVIS in The Meaning of Freedom. * * * * * “Beware of those leaders and theorists who eloquently rage against white supremacy but identify black gay men and lesbians as evil incarnate. Beware of those leaders who call upon us to...
“Most of human life”, Simone Weil wrote in her essay on The Iliad, “takes place far from hot baths”, but her own discomforts were mainly self-inflicted. She was born in Paris in 1909 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family. (…) Simone Weil was a gifted child, graduating first in...
JOHN LENNON AS PUBLIC ENEMY How the Beatle became a menace to the U.S. Establishment as revealed by Leaf’s and Scheinfield’s pulsating documentary After the Beatles broke-up, John Lennon certainly wasn’t willing to simply let things be. Even tough he remained faithful to the pacifist creed once stated in...