Try Mark Wilding’s Wildly Funny, But Razor-Sharp, Satirical Dramatization of the CIA-Backed Fascist Coup in Chile. Theatre West, Los Angeles.
Reviews
Bard of the Viets. Review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new book “The Committed”
It took fifty years and a circuitous route through exile and a mix of Asian and colonial cultures for Vietnam to get its bard.
“We Forced Them to Be Brutal to Us”
Book Review of “Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today,” Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke. Review by W.D. Ehrhart.
Sorkin’s “Trial of the Chicago 7” Sentences American Radicalism to Oblivion
How Hollywood Neuters the 60s: In cross-examination, many glaring historical inaccuracies aren’t just little academic flubs. By Dave Clennon.
Trial of the Chicago 7 Review
by Paul Glusman. Sorkin is committing the crime of stealing our history.
“The Trial of the Chicago 7” movie, a liberal fantasy?
The trial of the Chicago 7 — or the Chicago 8, depending on who’s counting and how — is the mother of all courtroom dramas.
I was there: One Woman’s Perspective on “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 is entertaining but it played fast and loose with the facts.
Thoughts on the Ken Burns Vietnam Documentary, New Mexico Discussion
This panel discussion was hosted by the Joan Duffy Chapter of Veterans for Peace in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Live review of Spike Lee’s Da Five Bloods
Viet Thanh Nguyen, “I watched Da 5 Bloods so you wouldn’t have to. I can’t recommend it. Here we go with my live tweeting of Spike Lee’s #Da5Bloods.”
Five stars for Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods
Spike Lee’s Vietnam War film Da 5 Bloods is “a condemnation of the past, a call for change, and a rich work of art worth watching over and over again.”
From an American soldier in Vietnam, tragedy and poetry
James G. Hershberg reviews the book "Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam" by Daniel H. Weiss...
How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine
A Waging Peace in Vietnam book review by Roger Bybee originally appeared at The Progressive on October 29, 2019....
The many flaws and failures of the United States in the Vietnam War
Photo: President Richard Nixon and adviser Henry Kissinger pursued too-costly strategies in Vietnam, says Max...
The Lies of War (Films): Burns, Novick, and The Vietnam War
Photo: Napalm bombs being dropped in Vietnam. Credit: Public domain (Wikimedia Commons) This spot-on review essay by...