Tag: Culture
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No Laughing Matter
Tempest member Hank Kennedy discusses the Nazi use of cartoon propaganda and draws parallels to the Zionist attack on Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists today.
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Remembering Alan Grant
Hank Kennedy remembers the life of comic book writer Alan Grant and the Left politics found in some of his most well-known works including Detective Comics, Batman, and Shadow of the Bat.
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The Vietnam War in comics, after the war
In the follow-up to an earlier article looking at the representation of the Vietnam War in mainstream U.S. comics, Hank Kennedy focuses on the years following the formal conclusion of the war.
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In memory of Neal Adams
Hank Kennedy celebrates Neal Adams’ political and artistic contributions to the world of comic books in this obituary.
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The market compels it
Restaurant worker Natalia Tylim discusses the experience of restaurant reopening in New York City this winter before broad vaccine distribution.
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Worker and popular education
Avery Wear and James Boyle discuss the massive adult education system organized by the U.S. Left in the early 20th century.
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Crossword politics
Camila Valle interviews puzzle constructor Natan Last about the sometime hidden, sometimes open politics of crosswords.
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How rock became white – part 3
In the final of a three-part series, Geoff Bailey, looks at the racial politics of rock and roll in the creation of “Classic Rock”, and how they inform a critique of the concept of cultural appropriation.
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Monuments to oppression
Bill Keach assesses the struggle to remove, relocate, and/or destroy certain monuments and statutes as both a reckoning with histories of racism and oppression and part of the process of envisioning a better future.
