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History Bites

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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NEW YORK

New Yorkers vs. the Wannabe King – Round Three

For the third time in 10 months, NYC turned out to protest a native son gone bad — very bad.

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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

A Sex and $$ Scandal During the Age of Reagan

In 1982, Brooklyn congressman Fred Richmond attempted to use money and powerful connections to maneuver his way out of a sex scandal.

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1973, the Forever War in Vietnam Came to an Inconclusive Close

A little over half a century ago, a president mired in an unpopular war finally declared the beginning of the end, and the Voice covered the damage left behind.

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THE FRONT

‘The Second Printing Revolution’ Shows Us That Information Has Never Been Free

The Grolier Club looks at the ways printing technology exploded in the 1800s, mirroring our own era of information overload.

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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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