Democrats could be looking at a semi-catastrophe in the November midterms, but in the long term we could be looking at a situation where the Republican party is essentially a permanent minority party, or is forced to throw its overwhelmingly white, ultra-conservative and nativist base overboard in order to attract the voters who will decide future elections.
From the looks of it, you might think that Foreign Policy—the once venerable journal of international political analysis—had come under the editorial guidance of Marvel Comics. The magazine’s latest cover features a Hitler-mustachioed Robert Mugabe, a vacant-eyed Kim Jong Il,...
On the last day of the festival, Martin Bresnick presented on his own music, in the manner of the other principal composers. Some composers are quite shy to talk about their work, for obvious reasons: they don’t want to reveal their “tricks”, or they don’t want...
The second week of Music10 flew by. Sorry not to have posted as things were happening, but rest assured, now that it’s over, I will keep trying to digest everything I experienced in blog format over the next few days. Most of my time last week was consumed by rehearsing for,...
Welcome to “Academic Affairs.” I am starting this blog with a simple idea in mind: the stories that we tell about academic life can shape and influence the way that all of us (academics and non-academics alike) think about the place of higher education in our society. Here at...
