Karen Lehrman Bloch is a cultural critic; author of The Lipstick Proviso: Women, Sex & Power in the Real World (Doubleday) and The Inspired Home: Interiors of Deep Beauty (Harper Design); Editor of International Political Affairs at The Weekly Blitz; and curator of the book and exhibition Passage to Israel (Skyhorse).
Created and directed by Shannon Cohn, “Below the Belt,” which premiered at NYC’s Museum of Modern Art in May, explains this complex inflammatory disease through the lens of three patients.
An honest debate about rational gun laws is long overdue, and for that to happen the hyper-partisanship, extremist rhetoric, and gratuitous divisiveness need to end.
To know your history is to carry all your pieces, whole and shattered, through the wilderness. And feel their weight.
– Sabrina Orah Mark
“This story is 5,000 years old, and yet it’s the most modern one as well.”
Based on the book “Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano,” by Alan Haft, Haft’s eldest son, the film was directed by Academy Award-winner Barry Levinson and stars Ben Foster as Harry Haft.
My goal here is to take a step back and understand that many participating in cancel culture were never taught the real essence of liberalism.
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