Trump’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ purges trigger alarming echoes of Mao
The Trump regime's purges of bureaucrats and educators over issues like diversity offer scary similarities to China's 1960s ...
Mickey Mouse and Mao Feature in Dadaist Animation ‘The Great History of Western Philosophy'
Mao Zedong, Socrates, Mickey Mouse, Ayn Rand, elephants, and echoes of Monty Python in a Dadaist animation film – that is one ...
Project Syndicate12d
The Tragedy of Zhou Enlai
Minxin Pei reflects on the complicated life and legacy of the renowned diplomat who was Mao Zedong’s dutiful lieutenant.
Radio Times15d
Madame Blanc Mysteries' Sally Lindsay teases first for season 4
Channel 5 detective drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries, which is written by and stars Sally Lindsay and Sue Vincent, is returning for its fourth season this year, and fans should expect to see a TV ...
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5 Wives of Dictators: Accomplices of Intimacy and Ideologies
In the shadow of authoritarian figures, some women played a much more important role than it seems. Accomplices and victims alike, their lives oscillated between glamour, power and controversy. Here ...
Deadline.com24d
Razzie Nominations: ‘Joker’ Sequel, ‘Megalopolis’ & ‘Madame Web’ Among Biggest Losers
Marvel’s Madame Web, Freancis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis and presidential biopic Reagan. Not coincidentally, all five are tied with six Razzie noms apiece. Those films ...
The New Yorker28d
Madame President: The Cover That Never Was
Dan and Becky Okrent spent seven years on the Met Project, a labor of love that took them from ancient Sumer to Synchronism.
The Financial Times29d
Charlwin Mao, the RedNote founder welcoming ‘TikTok refugees’
This week, however, his choice of name became the focal point of an online conspiracy theory that the app was named after a compilation of Chairman Mao Zedong’s quotations, which some translate ...