Trump’s Assault on universities, learning, science and ultimately technology, an article by Simon Schama
‘Un-American’ and ultimately self defeating.
#FallOfEmpires #BarbariansAtTheGates #MAGA #Trump #USA #SimonSchama #USPol
#SimonSchama
Epidemiologist Adrien Proust (1834-1903) in Simon Schama’s “Foreign Bodies” (2023). #111Words #SimonSchama #ForeignBodies #Vaccination #History #Epidemiology #AdrienProust #MarcelProust #Literature https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/08/epidemiologist-adrien-proust-1834-1903.html
Watching an episode of Simon Schama’s The Face of Britain. We had recorded this series on the set-top box back in the days when it was broadcast here. Now with most of our streaming service subscriptions paused, there is finally reason to browse our recordings. (Not to mention the DVD and Blu-ray collection…) This is a bit newer than his Power of Art series, it is even in HD. #SimonSchama
Unfortunately, it still seems to be behind a paywall.
Like the Financial Times op-ed by #SimonSchama that I would love to read...
"In the end, all history is natural history."
"Historian Simon Schama's new book traces the roots of today's distrust of #vaccines"
#VaccinesSaveLives #SimonSchama
[NPR title spells his name wrong as Simon Schema]
This programme is really powerful. But it makes you wonder where - and when - the modern fightback will come from in our deteriorating times.
'Art summons us to action' is one of #SimonSchama 's conclusions in his three part series #HistoryOfNow. It's a powerful mix of politics, philosophy, storytelling, science, and yes, art and history. Each episode made me cry for different reasons and I urge you to watch it if you can access it. #SilentSpring
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5wfy6
Post #World#War 2 there were deep #divisions in #America. Should it be a #social #democracy, in which a benevolent #state would look after its most vulnerable citizens or put its faith in #individual #enterprise+the #free #market to provide?
#SimonSchama examines how #filmmaker #CharlieChaplin+#author #AynRand created radically different #visions of how this new #postwar world should work, +how Rachel Carson drew attention to damage being done to the natural world.
'I don't want to hear that art and culture are a luxury, they are are a necessity, especially now'
#SimonSchama on the power of the creative imagination to speak deep, essential truths. #TheHistoryOfNow Vital, important #televsion #BBC
@sinabhfuil I’m looking forward to them. 🇬🇧 Guardian review was scathing about episode one but I loved it and it moved me to tears. #historyofnow #simonschama
Gave up looking for a BBC drama and instead watched Simon Schama and his History of Now. I'm very glad I did - found it excellent.
''On the gallery walls surrounding the piece Ai pinned lists of names — thousands of them — of the dead, marked in memory despite the best efforts of Chinese officialdom to consign them to oblivion. “Straight” is the “Guernica” of our young, bloodied century, and no textual history could possibly recover, as this masterpiece does, the enormous weight of the event’s catastrophe.'
https://www.ft.com/content/c945542f-87e5-412a-b9f0-535b8190a5bf
If you have access to BBC Iplayer I urge you to watch this. #historyofnow #simonschama https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/simon-schamas-history-of-now-bbc2-review-1992282
That Simon Schama docu series that started last night, The History of Now, on BBC is brilliant and heartfelt and flat out correct.
#simonSchama #historyOfNow #bbc
#HistoryOfNow Great world of culture anti-totalitarian documentary. And because, apart from the Spanish section, I remember much of it happening during my own lifetime too, very moving, as was Schama himself. Don't miss it on iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5wch4 #SimonSchama #HistoryofNow
Art against fascism. Great documentary for our times by Simon Schama. Must watch imho.
#simonschama #art #guernica #picasso #history https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0d5wch4/simon-schamas-history-of-now-series-1-1-truth-and-democracy
This new series from Simon Schama on BBC 2 is stunning. Reminds us why we need great art. You can watch it on the iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5wch4 #SimonSchama #HistoryofNow
I really recommend watching Simon Schama's History of Now (1st episode on BBC2 this evening & on iPlayer). A poignant and timely exploration of the fragility of democracy in Europe and beyond over the past 70 years or so - with huge implications for now given the corrosive lies and distortion of truth in politics today. #SimonSchama #HistoryofNow
This extraordinary programme by #SimonSchama ‘History of Now’ broadcast tonight @BBCTwo
Catch it in iPlayer if you missed it.
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Listing by Hollie Richardson @guardian
Just an extraordinary series on the role of art in fighting for democracy and freedom of speech #simonschama https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5wbqj #1984 #havel #pussyriot #ukraine
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