Daily Archive: January 21, 2016

In Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years.  In this...

In Buying Military Transformation Dombrowski and Gholz’s analyze the political relationship between the defense industry and Congress, the bureaucratic relationship between the firms and the military services, and the technical capabilities of different types of businesses. In this interview they...

nnThe following is an interview with Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939:nn n n n nQuestion: Hollywood celebrities today are associated with a variety of different social and political causes. How was the situation different then and how did...

ANDREW DEWAARD AND R. COLIN TAIT TALK THE CINEMA OF STEVEN SODERBERGH n n“I think that [Soderbergh’s] ‘final films’ from 2009-2013 after he announced his retirement reflect one of the most prolific and creative bursts of filmmaking in recent American...

The following is an interview with Creston Davis, co-editor of the series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and CulturennQuestion: As both a psychoanalyst and a political theological philosopher, how does your angle on the series differ from other editors?...

nnFreud’s Free Clinics, by Elizabeth Ann Danto, tells the surprising story of how Erik Erikson, Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Helene Deutsch, and other psychoanalysts created a network of free outpatient clinics and pioneered important innovations in psychoanalytic treatment and method....