Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Lady Chatterley, Senator Leila, and Patriarchy
Not a substitute for the experience of reading a great novel, but this is probably as good as a film adaptation of D.H....
Stormy weather is ahead in the Pacific
The future of Taiwan and China Though the war in Ukraine is the leading geopolitical trouble spot today, the Taiwan Straits...
Weimar, Cabaret, and Babylon Berlin
Ever since I did my PhD dissertation, which compared counterrevolutions in Chile, Italy, and Germany, I have been...
Ideas, Even the Most Foolish, Have Consequences
Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are, some of them try...
Krieg Ist Die Holle: Review of All Quiet on the Western Front
Like “War and Peace,” “All Quiet on the Western Front” is achieving the distinction of having the most film remakes of...
Marooned: Review of Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” (2022), which received the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is a new take on a question that was...