In many respects, 2011 has been marked as much by the mayhem of nature as it has by the upheavals of men. While challenges to political authority have captured the imaginations of millions and produced exciting tremors of revolution across the continents, Mother Nature’s increasingly...
Tony Kushner’s latest play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Guide to the Scriptures opened this month in New York to critical acclaim. But praise for Kushner, whom many consider the greatest living American playwright, was drowned out by outrage...
In a wave of global protests that indicted the lack of vision, courage, and responsibility on the part of their elders and political leaders, young people in Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia, France, Puerto Rico, and Greece have recently taken history into their own hands. Fighting not merely for a...
Popular media has portrayed the 2010 midterm elections as nothing short of a complete sea change. For those with Right-leaning political views or who ardently support the Republican Party, the results are prophetic—their sixty-three seat pick up in the House (and now fifty seat...
Not one to shy away from controversy, the outspoken and acerbic political cartoonist Ted Rall (best known for his take down of 9/11 widows and football-playing war heroes) has recently published a new book, Anti-American Manifesto with Seven Stories Press, in which he urges the reader to...
“The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy.” According to Michelle Latiolais, a former student of John Williams at the University of Denver where he taught for many years, this was a recurring bit of advice that Williams gave to his creative writing students. Latiolais wrote about...
