In These Times

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• • Culture
  • 27 Jul 07

  Giving Science the Finger

  Generalizations based on hand shape not only are formulated from small pools of data, but smack of pseudo science. more

  vol. 31, iss. 08    gender, theory

• • Views
  • 05 May 05

  Left Out

  During the closing plenary of the 2005 Left Forum—the conference formerly known as the Socialist Scholars—Bogdan Denitch of the… more

  vol. 29, iss. 13    activism

• • Culture
  • 30 Jan 04

  Labor Paeans

  Musician John McCutcheon will sometimes challenge rally organizers to name two speeches from the civil rights movement. “Everyone can… more

  vol. 28, iss. 06   

• • Culture
  • 01 Dec 03

  Patti Smith: Spit & Image

  Against an entertainment industry that seems so wedded to the cosmetics industry that a woman’s face is likely to… more

  vol. 28, iss. 02   

• • Culture
  • 05 May 03

  Remembering Nina Simone

  At Nina Simone’s funeral on April 25 at the Catholic church in Carry-le-Rouet, France, the legendary South African singer… more

  vol. 27, iss. 13   

• • Culture
  • 24 Mar 03

  Stranger than Fiction

  A few days after her 24th birthday in April 1939, Billie Holiday wandered into the Commodore Music Shop, a… more

  vol. 27, iss. 10