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Paul Starr reviews two recent books about the current state of contemporary media. All “fake news” or is the story more complicated?
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The rightwing populist tsunami didn’t happen; Greens blossom; Europe fragments, pro-EU majority maintained.
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Singing the Lord’s song in a strange land.
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POTUS takes a snooze.
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Stan Persky checks out the “guardians of the truth,” and puts in a good word for mainstream media (MSM). It’s “breaking news.”
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Can Democracy Work? asks James Miller. It’s not only this year’s question, it’s a question for the ages, from ancient Athens to the Trumpian present.
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Two senior Vancouver poets, George Bowering and George Stanley, do a book together. John Harris reads and reviews.
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Bob Rowan tells a free speech story about a too-little-known American philosopher, Alexander Meiklejohn.
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Old Socialists, Unite. You have nothing to lose but your walkers.
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Amos Oz, 1939-2018. Reading “A Tale of Love and Darkness.”
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