http://www.fpif.org/departments/fiesta FPIF Departments: Fiesta Mon, 20 May 2013 07:46:54 -0400 en-us 38.906778-77.041481 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/EGzEuGRQ75Q/purifying_americas_textbooks_of_ethnic_studies http://www.fpif.org/articles/purifying_americas_textbooks_of_ethnic_studies Fri, 17 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400 If right wingers are going to purge "ethnic studies" from America's textbooks, then they'll have to purge history too.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/EGzEuGRQ75Q" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/purifying_americas_textbooks_of_ethnic_studies http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/JduuL_QUv_w/what_do_they_do http://www.fpif.org/articles/what_do_they_do Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:42:54 -0400 Would you recognize a torturer if you saw one?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/JduuL_QUv_w" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/what_do_they_do http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/AtrrfRJ6n80/the_banal_militarism_of_hollywood http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_banal_militarism_of_hollywood Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:57:14 -0500 Appealing to jingoism is certainly easier than prompting national introspection, but is priming an audience for blood what we call art today?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/AtrrfRJ6n80" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/the_banal_militarism_of_hollywood http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/SNX7s4d-r1Q/eating_history http://www.fpif.org/articles/eating_history Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:20:44 -0500 Despite its triumphalism, the GDR museum in Berlin suggests that reunification remains an unfinished business.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/SNX7s4d-r1Q" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/eating_history http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/ZuTgCBAOClc/cerebus http://www.fpif.org/articles/cerebus Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:18:32 -0500 When we reach the adamantine gates of Iraq, it's too late to turn back.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/ZuTgCBAOClc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/cerebus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/FXsGaczXYJ0/pomegranate_means_grenade http://www.fpif.org/articles/pomegranate_means_grenade Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:49:55 -0500 Identify war by what it takes away.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/FXsGaczXYJ0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/pomegranate_means_grenade http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/C9JawgyAutI/argo_and_hollywoods_muslim_problem http://www.fpif.org/articles/argo_and_hollywoods_muslim_problem Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:00:00 -0500 While well-intentioned, "Argo" falls into the common Hollywood trap of making Muslims into a monolithic Green Menace.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/C9JawgyAutI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/argo_and_hollywoods_muslim_problem http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/NGxfBwWy8vE/global_stewarts http://www.fpif.org/articles/global_stewarts Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:00:00 -0400 Jon Stewart, the premier political satirist of his generation, is one of a kind. Or is he?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/NGxfBwWy8vE" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/global_stewarts http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/IEAyD8KZkrU/playing_the_pundit http://www.fpif.org/articles/playing_the_pundit Fri, 03 Aug 2012 07:30:00 -0400 Many entertainment figures, like George Clooney, have entered the world of punditry. But what happens when a pundit goes the other way?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/IEAyD8KZkrU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/playing_the_pundit http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~3/2sn6Ms7AlOU/art_and_the_arab_awakening http://www.fpif.org/articles/art_and_the_arab_awakening Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:00:00 -0400 Since the Arab Spring, artists have helped to foster a more vibrant civil society and pointed the way toward more durable democratic institutions.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FPIF/Fiesta/~4/2sn6Ms7AlOU" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fpif.org/articles/art_and_the_arab_awakening