The Luv Doc: Monogamous Leftovers

Polyamory, like communism, is much harder in practice than in theory

"...I really think it's a swell idea, but like communism, it's much harder in practice than in theory. There's..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Neruda

The famous Chilean poet is on the run in this biopic

"...as the newly elected president Gabriel González Videla outlaws Communism and Neruda (Gnecco) is forced underground. Gael García Bernal..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rollerball

"...a who-cares, strictly minor-league backstory. Here, the fall of Communism breeds not democracy, but organized chaos, a real-world parallel..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Friend of the Deceased

"...metaphor for the spiritual malaise following the collapse of communism in the Ukraine, it's a grim, dark spectacle of..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Utz

"...in defiance of the drab consistency of Eastern European Communism. “Marxist-Leninism never came to grips with the concept of..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marvin's Metamorphosis

From Communism to Conservatism, Olasky Comes Full Circle

"...not at all saying that atheism necessarily leads [to communism], but it did in my instance and I think..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Pater Familias

In Ted Cruz's case, the tree doesn't fall far from the apple

"..."You know communism or socialism, whatever you want to call it, what..."

Nov. 5, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Communists! GOP Sees Reds Under the SB 5 Bed

New conspiracy theory: Bill opponents no longer mob, now Stalinists

"...Republican Party communications director Andy Hogue (glossing over that communism and socialism are not interchangable terms): "So let me..."

June 28, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: October 8

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...to bring about the demon hordes of socialism and communism. Whew! socialism and communism. Whew!..."

Oct. 8, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Moral Confusion and Intellectual Laziness

"...showed a mature understanding of the evils of Soviet Communism. Conversely, Joseph L. Mankiewicz didn’t. The bottom line is..."

June 15, 2009 Postmarks

The Rights of Man (or a Company Formed by Man)

"...the very heart of socialism, and at its extreme, communism. And there is nothing democratic about giving a disembodied..."

April 23, 2007 Postmarks

Shot in the Dark

The Texas Documentary Tour presents Paul Devlin's 'Power Trip'

"...of the most tangible experiences of how truly "over" communism was in this troubled but beautiful country situated in..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Each 'Manchurian Candidate' Is of Its Time

"...their own. Overseas, unbridled socialism had given way to communism, and domestic fears revolved around the idea that America's..."

Aug. 25, 2004 Postmarks

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on The Manchurian Candidate remake's script

"...sense of ideological confusion – in a weird way communism is supposed to be pure democracy – MC suggested..."

July 30, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid

A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script

"...sense of ideological confusion – in a weird way communism is supposed to be pure democracy – MC suggested..."

July 23, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

MLK/FBI

The Feds' surveillance campaign of the civil rights icon placed in new context

"...on her? Why did the FBI's attention turn from communism to the civil rights movement? Why would agents just..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Graduation

A man goes to great lengths to secure a better life for his daughter

"...Having returned to his homeland after the fall of Communism in the early Nineties, only to later regret his..."

April 28, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

"Nobody's Right"

Latest Ken Burns documentary to explore all sides of Vietnam War

"...considerations – that the fear of appearing “soft on communism” convinced presidents beginning with Truman and Eisenhower, through Kennedy,..."

April 27, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Wednesday SXSW Interview: Downtown Boys

"...a rallying cry off Downtown Boys' 2015 debut, Full Communism. Rooted in both activism and the DIY scene of..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Get Talking

"...affected. Nor should we be lulled into believing that anti-Communism is something from a bygone era as the FBI..."

Jan. 14, 2016 Postmarks

'There To Tell the Truth'

Seymour Hersh on journalism, politics, presidents, and war

"...thinking perhaps we're there to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. Not knowing even, for example –..."

March 30, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Pagan Pride Day

Zilker Park, Sunday, September 19, 2010

"...health care and housing. Why? Because that would be communism. Most American Christians hate communism as much as the..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Column by The Luv Doc

Page Two: Return to Forever

From creationism to red-baiting, the right kicks it old school

"...the Red Scare of the 1920s or the hysterical anti-Communism of McCarthyism in the 1950s; rather than making excuses..."

May 29, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Ghosts Are Good Company

AFS Essential Series: The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema

"...based on shared labor and self-sacrifice – as old-German communism, for all its dehumanizing flaws, was – but rather..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Point Austin: The Convert

Mike Krusee on New Urbanism, Smart Growth, toll roads, and the importance of regional planning

"...has nationwide, and even worldwide, on people's lives." Fighting Communism..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Column by Michael King

What I Want to do With My Life

Mike Krusee on New Urbanism, Smart Growth, toll roads, and why Bobby Kennedy is his hero

"...walked away from fighting the Cold War, and fighting communism. Not just the Vietnam War, we can disagree on..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Einstein's slippers, and playing six degrees of alcoholism

"...mercantilism, socialism is the stage that follows capitalism, and communism is the stage that follows socialism. What follows communism?..."

June 8, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...application of the domino theory to Southeast Asia and communism, the fear that if Vietnam became a communist nation,..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Page Two

A few modest school-finance proposals

"...Asia (formerly Indo-China) would follow the Chinese lead to communism. Bush, well aware that Asian unity was a fiction,..."

April 23, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Do You Feel Safe? A Chronicle Questionnaire

Test your patriotism with our attempt at Total Information Awareness.

"...since the days J. Edgar Hoover was cross-dressing against communism...."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature

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