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by HPR Contributor | Writer's Block | May 5th, 2020
…by Debra Marquart marquart@iastate.edu A few years ago, I was giving a talk at the Fargo Public Library about researching and writing my book, The Horizontal World, which is a memoir about growing up a rebellious farmer’s daughter on a North Dakota wheat farm. In the 1970s, I was a college…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | May 3rd, 2020
…Swift: “A Good Fat Child Will Make Four Dishes Of Excellent Nutritive Meat”When Donald the Lyin’ King proposed that COVID-19 might be able to be controlled by injecting bleach, Lysol, sanitizers and other disinfectants into the body, the very idea was so nut-crazy I thought of two satiric works of…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | May 2nd, 2020
…As alternative viewing strategies for avid moviegoers seeking fresh content continue, the South by Southwest filmmakers who opted to join the Amazon Prime collection have benefited this week from attention that would have otherwise been more limited by the in-person version of the Austin, Texas showcase. One of the best…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | April 30th, 2020
…History and Liberty: “On the one hand is the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy – a self-induced intellectual coma…On the other hand there is the politics of eternity – a longing for past moments that never really happened during…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 26th, 2020
…Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds: “Because We Know Who You Are….In 1944 as a prisoner of war in a German labor camp M/Sgt Edmonds was the leader of the American prisoners. One morning at roll call the German commander demanded that all the Jews in the formation step forward. Edmonds said:…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 26th, 2020
…Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s noteworthy feature debut as writer-director examines, with a degree of precision and deliberateness that would impress Alfred Hitchcock, the actions of a young woman who consumes inedible objects as a way to attain some measure of control in her suffocating marriage to a wealthy man. The disorder, identified…
by Sabrina Hornung | Editorial | April 21st, 2020
…Governor Burgum, Approximately five weeks ago I was laid off from my job at a weekly paper and I just got my first unemployment debit card. I now make half of what I would make at the paper and I’m still responsible for paying 100% of my rent and 100%…
by Ed Raymond | Gadfly | April 19th, 2020
…Hey! Hey! Hey! Supremes! How Many Badgers Did You Kill Today?We are in the middle of a deadly COVID-19 pandemic that may last years, but we have been attacked for 244 years by another pandemic which started in Philadelphia when 56 white guys signed a proclamation that “all men are…
by Charlie Barber | Last Word | April 18th, 2020
…#16 of On Tyranny: “Learn from peers in other countries. – Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends in other countries. The present difficulties in the United States are an element of a larger trend. And no country is going to find a solution by itself. Make sure…
by Greg Carlson | Cinema | April 17th, 2020
…Future Activists Meet at Newnham and LeBrecht’s “Crip Camp” Sundance 2020 opening night selection and audience award winner “Crip Camp”—now streaming on Netflix—recounts the incredible grassroots movement that ultimately led to the passage and implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law…