Warner Bros. animators, under the leadership of Charles M. “Chuck” Jones, launched their own, albeit mild, counter attack when they introduced Marvin the Martian in 1948, several years before The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Fail Safe (1964), Seven Days in May (1964), Dr. Strangelove (1964), or Boris and Natasha, the Russian spies in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Equal Rights Amendment"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyv5Fw0JSk&feature=youtu.be
3 Min YouTube Video
What I learned by befriending Iranians on Facebook
The Unlikely Paths of Grant and Lee
To millions of Americans, 150 years after the end of the Civil War, Lee is a role model and Grant is—despite his gifted generalship and consequential presidency—an embarrassment. What happened? How did the hero of the war become a quasi-ignominious figure, and how did the champion of Southern slavery become, if not the war’s hero, its most popular figure?
Jamelle Bouie tackles this vexing question.
When The KKK Was Mainstream
Imagine: There was a time when the KKK was an out-in-the-open, part-of-the-community organization. I had always envisioned the repugnant and reprehensible lawbreakers operating in the cowardly shadows. After all, it was known as the Invisible Empire.
16 Shocking Vintage Posters That Warned Men About The Dangers Of Women Having Rights
In the 1890s and early 1900s, women were fighting for their rights. The kind of propaganda that came out during that time is shocking to modern day society. Illustrations, like the ones listed here, were made to warn men against the dangers of women’s rights.
Man Who Shot Reagan Seeks Release From Mental Hospital
John Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to a mental institution for shooting the president, Press Secretary James Brady and two law enforcement officers. Now he’s asking a federal judge to allow him to live full time with his mother in Virginia.
The Most Diverse Cities Are Often The Most Segregated
Nate Silver at 538 walks us through America’s most/least diverse and segregated cities. Data Power!
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi
On this week’s Slate Culture Gabfest, the critics discuss About Elly: the newly released movie from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. How does this story speak to both global and Iranian audiences?
Also, Fahadi’s A Separation
Holocracy at Zappos
Zappos, the online clothing retailer and Amazon subsidiary, has spent the past year and a half conducting a peculiar experiment. It’s called holacracy, and it’s the somewhat radical notion that the employees of some companies—like Zappos—would function better without managers in the mix. At Zappos, the project began in late 2013, when chief executive Tony Hsieh announced that the company would eliminate all titles and managers and transition to a holacratic structure.
"English votes for English laws"
Mr Cameron said that unless the current rules are changed: “English MPs will be unable to vote on the income tax paid by people in Aberdeen and Edinburgh, while Scottish MPs are able to vote on the tax you pay in Birmingham or Canterbury or Leeds.
“It is simply unfair. And with English votes for English laws we will put it right.
“Because if you have basic constitutional unfairness like we’ve had, if you have the people in one part of the UK feeling like they are getting a raw deal, then resentment festers, and that undermines the bonds and the fellow-feeling that are the basis of the United Kingdom.”
Why Isn’t Jazz More Popular?
A great Quora response…
So why is jazz not as popular as it once was? I think it’s mostly due to hip-hop’s rise as the preferred authenticity-signaling genre for many white listeners.
Scopes trial age of the earth argument
When The KKK Was Mainstream
Imagine: There was a time when the KKK was an out-in-the-open, part-of-the-community organization. I had always envisioned the repugnant and reprehensible lawbreakers operating in the cowardly shadows. After all, it was known as the Invisible Empire.
Vietnam war photo essay from the Atlantic
check out this three-part series. Harrowing. Mind bending.
China's detained 'guerrilla feminists'
They are a group of feminists who are dedicated to campaigning against sexual abuse and domestic violence.
They frequently carried out guerrilla-style protests to raise awareness about their cause.
Mexico City tries to squat off the fat for free subway rides
In an effort to fight obesity, the government of Mexico City will begin offering free subway rides in exchange for 10 squats in front of a ticket-dispensing motion sensor.
Avuncularism?
They did a similar thing in Russia…
Auschwitz: Drone video of Nazi concentration camp
Our dangerous new McCarthyism: Russia, Noam Chomsky and what the media’s not telling you about the new Cold War
It is time to attempt that hardest of things—to see ourselves for who we are, to see what it is we are doing and what is being done to us.
Two things prompt the thought. We have the latest news on Washington’s confrontation with Russia, and we have a newly precipitous decline in the national conversation on this crisis. In my estimation, we reach dangerous new lows in both respects.
…Two, there can be no Cold War II because the Cold War as we knew it never ended.
Patrick Smith is the author of “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century.” He was the International Herald Tribune’s bureau chief in Hong Kong and then Tokyo from 1985 to 1992.
Where Are Muckraking Journalists Today?
In its heyday, between 1903 and 1906, muckraking journalism was ubiquitous, urgent, influential. The “interests” (what we call today “special interests”) threatened the commonweal; the press attacked the interests. Even in the wake of TR’s tongue-lashing, investigative journalism continued to power Progressive reforms.
Where have all the muckrakers gone?
Jessica Dorman, a former president of The Harvard Crimson, is an assistant professor of American Studies at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.