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Category: Literature/Arts/Film

Franzen’s “Freedom” takes on our obsession with personal liberty

December 13, 2010 Ann Mandelstamm Literature/Arts/Film One comment

The hype surrounding the release of Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel, Freedom, dazzled book lovers everywhere, even if [conservative pundit] David Brooks was less than

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Political movies have short “screen lives” in St. Louis

December 10, 2010 Arthur Lieber Literature/Arts/Film, Missouri region 2 comments

Recently,  twelve high-school  students and four staff members of our non-profit went to see the exciting political thriller, “Fair Game” at the Tivoli Theater  in University

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Higher education for sale

December 3, 2010 Madonna Gauding Education, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

One of the most interesting revelations of Charles Ferguson’s movie Inside Job was his exposure of the ways in which academic economists contributed to

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Film “Inside Job” shows sharply divided America

November 19, 2010 Madonna Gauding Economy, Government, Literature/Arts/Film, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Inside Job presents an illuminating account of how the financial meltdown of 2008 came to be. My biggest take away is that we are

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Gerrymandering: The movie

October 19, 2010 Madonna Gauding Campaigns, Literature/Arts/Film One comment

I haven’t seen the new documentary film Gerrymandering but I’ve been intrigued by various reviews. Filmmaker Jeff Reichert tells the story of gerrymandering, beginning

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“The Most Dangerous Man in America,” available, at last, on DVD

September 24, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik History, Literature/Arts/Film, Media, War 4 comments

You have to be deep into middle age to know, first-hand, what Daniel Ellsberg did in the early 1970s to expose the top-level lies

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Hotel Rwanda 2010

April 28, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

Its real name is the Hotel des Milles Collines. Moviegoers know it as the “Hotel Rwanda,” from the 2004 movie of the same name.

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