| Excerpt: | Third installment in a series examining a white supremacist text published in 1896 that can help us understand what's happening today. Sometimes, it's in the awfully done that we can see a point of view most clearly. |
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| Published at: | 8:15 PM on Sunday, August 23rd, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Media & Culture, Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Instructive Bad Reading, Lessons from History |
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Category Archives: Views & Reviews
Instructive bad reading, Part III: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
Instructive bad reading, Part I: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”
| Excerpt: | First installment in a series examining a white supremacist text published in 1896 that can help us understand what's happening today. Sometimes, it's in the awfully done that we can see a point of view most clearly. |
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| Published at: | 8:15 PM on Friday, August 21st, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Media & Culture, Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Instructive Bad Reading, Lessons from History |
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Book Review: “Dawn of the Code War” looks at the modern age’s cyber battlegrounds
| Excerpt: | Former Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin and journalist Garrett Graff's book focuses on the new challenges posed by cyber threats to national security. |
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| Published at: | 5:00 PM on Monday, June 8th, 2020 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, National Defense, Technology |
| Tags: | Books, Hacking |
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Documentary Review: “Race to Nowhere” may be ten years old, but it has aged well
| Excerpt: | Vicki Abeles created this documentary film to bring attention to some of the problems with the American education system. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Sunday, January 19th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Education, Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Film, Professional Pay, School Funding, Testing & Evaluation |
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Documentary Reviews: “Guest House”, “John Mendez: The Bridge”, and “Faith in Action”
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's reviews of the three films featured at the October 4th Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, concerning homelessness and rejoining society after incarceration. |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Film |
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Documentary Review: “Raise Hell” is a fun and inspiring portrait of journalist Molly Ivins
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of the 2019 documentary film that tells the story of Texas' best known columnist and advocacy journalist. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Saturday, September 28th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Film |
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Documentary Review: “The Great Hack” shows how data insecurity impacts elections
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Great Hack, an essential, must-see film breaking down what happened to our democracy in the 2016 presidential election. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 PM on Sunday, September 1st, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Elections, Technology |
| Tags: | Brexit, Digital Freedom, Films, Privacy |
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Book Review: We can still make “A Bright Future” with nuclear energy
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of A Bright Future, a book that discusses how some countries have tackled the climate crisis and how the rest could follow. |
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| Published at: | 6:30 PM on Sunday, June 30th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Our Environment |
| Tags: | Books, Climate Crisis, Energy & Power |
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SIFF Documentary Review: Reconnect to the effort to save Alaska’s salmon with The Wild
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of The Wild, a new film by Mark Titus that examines the renewed campaign to stop the proposed Pebble Mine from inflicting massive damage on Alaska's Bristol Bay. |
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| Published at: | 7:03 PM on Sunday, June 16th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Our Environment |
| Tags: | Conservation, Seattle International Film Festival |
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Book Review: With “No One at the Wheel”, the rich can steal the roads from us — if we let them
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of No One At The Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future by Samuel Schwartz. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 PM on Saturday, June 15th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Views & Reviews |
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SIFF Documentary Review: Our Bodies Our Doctors is a timely reminder of the importance of reproductive rights
| Excerpt: | Read NPI's review of Our Bodies Our Doctors, a film about reproductive rights that's being screened at the 2019 Seattle International Film Festival. |
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| Published at: | 6:11 PM on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019 |
| Written by: | Theresa Curry Almuti |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Healthcare, Media & Culture |
| Tags: | Film, Reproductive Rights, Seattle International Film Festival |
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BOOK REVIEW: “A Prophet of Peace” and Juan Cole’s New Historicism
| Excerpt: | I sometimes attend the Seattle Atheist Church on Sundays, and despite the many virtues that group has an organization and positive argument it makes by example for secular humanism, the fact that the “Four Horsemen” of the New Atheism movement were four white Anglo-American men reflects accurately the biases you’ll find in the atheism movement […] |
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| Published at: | 6:28 AM on Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 |
| Written by: | David A Johnson |
| Categories: | Views & Reviews |
| Tags: | Book Reviews |
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Instructive bad reading, Part IV: Dissecting fascism with the help of “Might is Right”