| Excerpt: | Lane Greene’s Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can’t Be Tamed came across, in its initial reading, as a scattershot collection of topics relating vaguely to the way the pronunciations, words, and grammars of languages will change with time so long as those languages continue to live and have people speak them. What makes the […] |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Sunday, April 7th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Book Reviews, Books |
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Category Archives: Media & Culture
Book Review: “Talk on the Wild Side” by Lane Greene shows how language is power
Book Review: Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Peter Watson's Fallout, which argues that "the atomic bomb was the unnecessary product of mistrust and deceit between World War II allies". |
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| Published at: | 8:00 PM on Sunday, March 24th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Books, Nuclear Proliferation |
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Documentary Review: Oscar winner “Period. End of Sentence.” is a must-see short film
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of the 2019 Academy Award winning film for Best Documentary Short, exploring the rarely discussed subject of menstruation. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Sunday, March 24th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Academy Awards, Films |
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2019 Oscars impressions: America got a shorter, more diverse ceremony to enjoy
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's impressions of the 91st Annual Academy Awards, which aired February 24th, 2019, on ABC. |
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| Published at: | 10:20 PM on Sunday, February 24th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Academy Awards, Film |
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Book Review: “The Empty Throne” makes a better argument for not having one
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership, by Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay. |
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| Published at: | 10:30 AM on Sunday, January 20th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Books |
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Book Review: Kissinger is proof the adults in the room were “Reckless”, too
| Excerpt: | In the Mel Brooks parody “Space Balls”, the villainous character Darth Helmet brags to Lonestarr, the protagonist, that, “Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.” This trope appears in fiction often, and some writers rely on it almost entirely. The medievalist historian and culture critic Steven Atwell has observed that one of the central […] |
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| Published at: | 6:00 AM on Sunday, January 13th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Book Reviews, Books |
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Documentary Review: Crime + Punishment details fight against illegal policing quotas
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Crime + Punishment, an original Hulu documentary chronicling the efforts of whistleblower cops to stop illegal policing quotas. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 PM on Thursday, January 10th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Films, Seattle International Film Festival |
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Book Review: Hilarie Gamm’s “Billions Lost” sadly has nothing useful or progressive to say
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of "Billions Lost: The American Tech Crisis and the Roadmap to Change" by Hilarie T. Gamm. |
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| Published at: | 3:30 PM on Sunday, November 25th, 2018 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Books, Human Rights |
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Documentary Review: Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe is critical viewing
| Excerpt: | We are doomed to repeat history if we don't learn from it, the saying goes. Read NPI's review of Rick Steves' new special, The Story of Fascism in Europe. Then, make time to ask friends and family if they've voted. |
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| Published at: | 8:45 AM on Sunday, October 21st, 2018 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Film, Lessons from History |
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Book Review: In the future of “Unscaled”, AI will keep the rich different from you and me
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Saturday, October 6th, 2018 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Book Reviews, Books |
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Book Review: Dana Fisher’s Activism, Inc. is a reminder of the sin of ideals procrastinated
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Activism, Inc., a 2006 book by Dana Fisher that examines "how the outsourcing of grassroots campaigns is strangling progressive politics in America." |
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| Published at: | 12:30 PM on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Books |
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Don’t expect right wing media to apologize for deceptively declaring I-1639 to be dead
| Excerpt: | Last week, right wing blogs and media outlets credited the NRA with a big victory when a judge blocked the Alliance for Gun Responsibility's I-1639 from the ballot. Now that the Supreme Court has reversed that judge's decision, though, no mea culpas appear to be forthcoming. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 AM on Saturday, August 25th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Media Criticism, Secure Firearms Ownership |
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Book Review: “The Storm Before the Storm” and the seduction of history’s lessons
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Storm Before The Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic, by Mike Duncan. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Books |
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SIFF Documentary Review: Our Bodies Our Doctors is a timely reminder of the importance of reproductive rights