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"Spider Man: Into The Spider-Verse" Is A Big Hit Among Movie Goers This Weekend
"Spider-Man: Into The Spider Verse" took the number one spot in the box office when it opened in theaters this weekend--making a cool $40 million dollars in the first two days of its' run. Fans and critics have raved about the film; deeming it one of Marvel's greatest animated achievements.
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Read Jane Jacobs' "Systems of Survival" to Understand Donald Trump
Jane Jacobs' 1992 "Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics" might explain Donald Trump's 2016 victory better than Steve Bannon's "Fourth Turning" or President Obama's "Arc of History."
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The Republic
No form of government is more championed in modern times than the democratic state. But long before democracies became the gold standard for government, Plato wrote off democracies as being detrimental to the functioning of a just state. Is there something to his antagonistic view of government "by the people?"
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Bannon and Frum Debate Trump's American Populism--in Canada
Steve Bannon and David Frum's Munk Debate from November 2nd was one of the stranger television shows that I have seen. Contra Frum, Bannon argued President Trump is a transformative figure in "the Fourth Turning" of American history (The Revolution, Civil War and New Deal were the other three). So the Obama Administration's end represented the exhaustion of one cycle, the Trump Administration the beginning of another.
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The Other Separation Crises
For months, the news has been reporting on the federal government’s policy of separating families of immigrants at the borders. Why don’t they report on the same government’s other policy that for years has been forcibly separating families with no chance of them ever being reunited?
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Ode to a Chorus Line: Singing and Dancing at the Same Time
There's a song in Monty Python’s Spamalot (2005) called "You Won’t Succeed on Broadway if you Don’t Have any Jews." Here are some introductory lyrics: Broadway is a very special place / Filled with very special people / People who can sing and dance / Often at the same time!! Well I’m here to tell you … it ain’t easy.
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