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History Bites

SEVEN DECADES

A Monument to a Corrupt POTUS – 1977 Version

Three years after Richard M. Nixon resigned, the Voice ran a contest to determine an appropriate memorial for the disgraced Commander in Chief.

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SEVEN DECADES

A Government Show Trial in 1971 Echoes Trumped-Up Charges Now

The Black Panthers were accused of planning heinous crimes, but the prosecution’s case was way too imaginative for a jury of street-level New Yorkers.

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History Bites

IBOGAINE! It’s Back! Just in Time for Doomsday! 

Drugs and politics have long been odd bedfellows, none more than teetotaler Donald Trump unleashing ibogaine to help vets suffering from PTSD.

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SEVEN DECADES

When the Pentagon Screened ‘The Battle of Algiers’

In 2003, the U.S. was mired in the Iraq War and the Voice revisited a film that has long been a cautionary tale for empires everywhere.

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History Bites

250 Years = 250 Feet: Trump’s Desire for a Bigly Arch Echoes Megalomaniacs of the Past

Autocrats crave massive ceremonial structures to cement their legacies.

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FILM

‘Two Prosecutors’ Finds Flesh Crushed and Lives Smothered Under Stalin’s Terminal Bureaucracy

Ukrainian writer/director Sergei Loznitsa’s life's work is calling out fascists, past and present.

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SEVEN DECADES

Beaten or Stoned? Was 1968 the Beginning of the End of the Sixties?

Fifty years ago this week, the Voice reviewed the “White Album” and “Beggars Banquet,” two records that caused a raft of trouble.

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VOICE CHOICE

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Hits Too Close to Home in Our Dystopian Times 

“Orwell and Truth,” at NYU’s Kimmel Windows Gallery, explores the history of the writer and journalist who gave us the term “Orwellian.” 

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History Bites

From Hell – Trump’s Modified Limited Hangout on Epstein Is Leaving America Hanging

From Jack the Ripper to Nixon and Watergate to Trump and Epstein, coverups have frequently roiled political history.

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1957, Four Voice Staffers Recalled Their Shock at Hearing FDR Had Died

This Presidents’ Day, we look back on how the news about the four-term POTUS — who'd been in office as a generation of Americans came of age and then went off to war — still hit hard a dozen years later.

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