Naveen Kumar

Washington, D.C. Naveen Kumar is a journalist and critic whose work appears in The New York Times, Variety, them.us and more.

57%

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • The lie that fuels <em>The Hunt</em➔ is a baldfaced one, made by Clara (Kay Winard at the performance I attended), an implacable 5-year-old who mischaracterizes a scene we've just witnessed between her and Menzies' Lucas, the lone male teacher at her school.
  • The play “Doubt” is set in the year before President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
  • The point seems to be that the sexes are inseparable from their essential natures. Boys will be boys, in other words, and women duplicitous.

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • It could be a timely argument for live theater.
  • The point seems to be that the sexes are inseparable from their essential natures. Boys will be boys, in other words, and women duplicitous.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • The play concludes with the power of doubt and its importance in our age of polarization, conspiracy and mobs both virtual and in real life.
  • The play “Doubt” is set in the year before President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Deceptions

30%

Examples:

  • The body of the article also portrays them as such without providing any evidence to support this claim.
  • The title of the article suggests that these two plays are about allegedly horrible men when it is not entirely accurate.

Recent Articles

Doubt Returns to Broadway: A Review of the Play and Its Relevance Today

Doubt Returns to Broadway: A Review of the Play and Its Relevance Today

Broke On: Friday, 08 March 2024 Doubt Returns to Broadway: A Review of the Play and Its Relevance Today explores themes such as pride, priesthood, presumptions of pedophilia, and a battle between men who had all the power and women who saw how they used it. The production features Liev Schreiber as Father Flynn and Amy Ryan as Sister Aloysius. This revival of the original Broadway show that won several awards is now even more relevant today due to ongoing issues with sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.