Are we, in fact, living in a time of revolution? What it means and what you can do about it, according to one of MIT’s greatest thinkers.

Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity

A man who looms as large as Karl Marx needed multiple Significant Others (although when it came to wives, he only had one).

Starring Ted Danson as Karl Marx, Maddie Ogden as Jenny von Westphalen, and Patton Oswalt as Friedrich Engels.

Also featuring Katie Sharer and Matt O’Brien.

Source List:

Love and Captial: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel, ©2011, Hachette Book Group

Engels by Terrell Carver, ©2011, Oxford University Press

Revolutions Podcast, Season 10

Reason.org, Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’

The Washington Post, “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution,” by Mary Gabriel

National Library of Medicine, Friedrich Engels: Businessman and Revolutionary

Britannica, Young Hegelians

CCSNA.org, Duke of Argyll

Marxist.org, Yearning: A Romance, The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852

History.com, Paris Commune of 1871

What is a fan to do with unsavory intel on their idol? Is it possible to separate the art from the artist? Should we even try?

Claire’s book, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma is out now.

Lover and muse to multiple artists, Gala notoriously spit on people she didn’t like—or worse. Her marriage to the renowned artist Salvador Dalí was as surreal as his paintings, which he signed with both of their names even though she never held a brush.

Starring Laura Ramoso as Gala Dalí and José Arroyo as Salvador Dalí

Also featuring Stephen K. Amos, Nigel Daly, Neve O’Brien, and Tavis Doucette

Source List:

MUSE: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History’s Masterpieces by Ruth Millington, ©2022, Pegasus Books, Ltd.

The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose, ©2002, Harper Collins E-books

The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali, Trans. By Haakom M. Chevalier, ©1993, Dover Publications

Biography.com, The Surreal Romance of Salvador and Gala Dalí

The Paris Review, When Your Muse is Also a Demonic Dominatrix

The Art Story, Gala Dalí: Russian-Spanish Art Patron and Muse

Wikipedia, Gala Dalí

Fahrenheit Magazine, Anna María and Salvador Dalí, Different Paths for the Same Blood

The Dalí Org, Gala Dalí

Poetry Foundation, Paul Éluard

The Art Story, Salvador Dalí

Briannica, Salvador Dalí

El País, Dalí and Lorca’s Games of Seduction

Gazette du Bon Ton, The Surreal Life of Salvador Dalí

Art Hive, Love Story in Pictures: Salvador Dalí and Gala

Time, Salvador Dalí

The New York Times, Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange

Yang Gallery, Dalí & Gala: The Love Story

Sandra Newman was given one assignment by the Orwell Estate: Re-write 1984 from the point of view of the character Julia.

Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s 1984

George Orwell has never been accused of being a feminist. And yet his wife Eileen left her mark on his most important works.

Starring Sally Drexler as Eileen Blair and Nigel Daly as George Orwell

Also featuring: Ben Partridge, Luke Millington-Drake, Thom Wickes, Amelia Chappelow, and Colin Anderson.

Source List:

Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp, © 2020

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder, © 2023

Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2003, Published 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media

Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2023, Published by Pegasus Books, Ltd

1984 & Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, © 2021 by True Sign

1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell, © 2022, Sanage Publishing

The Guardian, Looking for Eileen: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story

The New York Times, One Biography Questions Orwell’s Image, and Another Brings His First Wife Into Focus

New Humanist, Eric, Eileen and Norah

The American Scholar, Down and Out

The Guardian, Orwell by DJ Taylor Review - A Very English Socialist

The Orwell Foundation, Remembering Eileen: An Interview with George Orwell’s Son, Richard Blair

The New York Times, How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult

Online Etymology Dictionary, Orwellian

The Sydney Morning Herald, The Mysterious Absence of George Orwell’s First Wife

The Guardian, Another Piece of the Puzzle

The Orwell Society, Eileen - and Orwell’s Shifting Attitudes on Gender Issues

The New Yorker, Honest, Decent, Wrong

The Article, In Defense of George Orwell

The one who does the work is not always the one who gets the glory. Also… what is an orchestrator, anyway?

Find Fernando’s work on his Instagram here

Did Duke Ellington really used to say: “He does all the work and I take all the bows?” One thing’s for sure—neither man would have had the career he did without the other.

Starring Fat Tony as Billy Strayhorn and Open Mike Eagle as Duke Ellington

Also featuring: Sasheer Zamata, Sam Sanders, JaRon Ferguson, Miles Gross, Chris Hayes, and Tavis Doucette

Source List:

Lush Life by David Hajdu, ©1996, North Point Press, 18 West 18 Street, NY NY 10011

Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, by Walter van de Leur, ©2002, Oxford University Press

Beyond Category; The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington by John Edward Hasse, ©1993, Da Capo Press

Music is my Mistress by Duke Ellington, ©1973, Da Capo Press

JUST JAZZ No. 3, Ed. Sinclair Traill and The Hon. Gerald Lascelles, ©1959, Four Square Books, Landsborough Publications Ltd, 173 New Bond Street, London, W.1

JUST JAZZ No. 4, Ed. Sinclair Traill and The Hon. Gerald Lascelles, ©1960, Pub. Souvenir Press Ltd, London, WC1 and Canada, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, Printed GB by Clarke, Doble & Brendon, Ltd, Oakfield Press

JazzProfiles, Billy Strayhorn - The Bill Coss Interview

National Jazz Archive, Duke Ellington

CBC News, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington’s ‘right arm’, to be paid tribute to at Capilano University concert

The New Yorker, The Hot Bach - I

The New Yorker, The Hot Bach II

YouTube, Duke Ellington Interview by Jack Cullen 1962

Colburn, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s Collaboration