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Current Affairs

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Hamilton Movie Livedraw

Will the Hamilton movie be terrible? Yes. But how terrible? Jason Adam Katzenstein returns to draw his appalled reactions in real time.

Who’s excited for the terrifying hiphop musical where the slave-owning Founding Fathers are all somehow people of color with Big Dreams who pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Ishmael Reed is not a fan, and neither is Jason Adam Katzenstein.










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Celebrating our Ninth Year of publication! Lots to stimulate your brain with in this issue: how to address the crisis of pedestrian deaths (hint: stop blaming cars!), the meaning of modern art, is political poetry any good?, and the colonial adventures of Tinin. Plus Karl Marx and the new Gorilla Diet!

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