We hereby present the next episode of "It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present" by Evan Tucker. This continues a series of shorter episodes where Evan reviews and revisits various films, books, and musical performances. This episode begins a discussion of critics after the recent deaths of Clive James, John Simon, and Harold Bloom.
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Orson Welles and the Grandiose - Prologue
We hereby present the next episode of "It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present" by Evan Tucker. This week, Evan begins to present his grand theory of cinematic greatness.
Read MoreIsrael, Gaza, The Impossibility of Dialogue? - Part 2
We hereby present the next episode of "It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present" by Evan Tucker. This week, Evan continues his discussion of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and offers a vociferous defense of the Jewish State.
Read MoreThe Crisis of What is Art: Part 3 - Populism vs. Elitism
We hereby present the next episode of It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present by Evan Tucker. This week, Evan illustrates the conflict between popular and classical art.
Read MoreMa Vlast - Tabor and Blanik
We hereby present the next episode of It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present by Evan Tucker. This week, Evan concludes his three week exploration of Ma Vlast with excursions into Czech history, mythology, and religion. He tells the story of Zdenek Nejedly, the Czech Forrest Gump, and Rafael Kubelik - his favorite conductor.
Read MoreMa Vlast - Moldau
We hereby present the next episode of It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present by Evan Tucker. In this episode, Evan continues his exploration of Ma Vlast and the Moldau's exhibition of the Czech countryside.
Read MoreMa Vlast - Vysehrad
We hereby present the next episode of It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present by Evan Tucker. In this episode, Evan begins to take us down a journey through the exceedingly strange orchestral composition: Ma Vlast, which has so much to tell us about Central European history, about nationalism, about the 19th century, a period that seems so different from our own, but just beneath the surface, is all too similar, and how the era set the stage for everything that's happened ever since.
Read MoreThe Person at the Top: Mass Movements in the New America
We hereby present the next episode of It's Not Even Past: A History of the Distant Present by Evan Tucker. In this episode, the history of Africa's leaders further illustrates the history of mass movements.
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