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The Performing Arts Are the New Civics
Civics education is all the rage. At public universities across the country, red-state legislatures are mandating the creation of new civics centers and prescribing undergraduate course requirements for American history and government. At Iowa’s flagship, the Center for Intellectual Freedom, founded in 2025 by GOP lawmakers, is the only academic unit permitted to offer two new required civics courses.
We the (Theatre) People
John Adams once predicted that July 4, the date of the vote ratifying the Declaration of Independence, would be “celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary festival…with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires, and Illuminations from one End of this continent to the other.” Adams had little interest in theatre at the time, but he understood that live performance is bound to democracy as a civic space of convening, public discourse, and collective...
Trust Isn’t the Issue
For decades the U.S. has taken justifiable pride in its higher education system being the envy of the world and the entity most responsible for its economic dominance. Despite this historic confidence, a rising chorus now warns it is misplaced. Daniel Diermeier, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, put it succinctly, “we have seen significant erosion of trust.” Accepting this widely repeated view as fact, many universities are taking steps.
Police at a protest make violence more likely
A pro-Palestinian protester yells past state troopers at the University of Texas in Austin, Monday, April 29. Jay Janner/Associated Press Last Thursday, the day after the first protest arrests at the University of Texas Austin, I held my final class of the semester. The undergraduates were unusually quiet as they trickled into the junior honors seminar about why history is so important to us Americans.
Chautauqua, where Salman Rushdie was attacked, has a long history of promoting free speech and learning for the public good
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Chautauqua, where Salman Rushdie was attacked, has a long history of promoting free speech and learning for the public good
On Aug. 20, 2022, a large crowd gathered in front of the New York Public Library to hear prominent authors such as Kiran Desai, Gay Talese and Colum McCann read from novelist Salman Rushdie’s works. The event was organized as a demonstration of support for Rushdie after he was brutally attacked during a lecture on Aug. 12. The Indian-born writer has been the subject of death threats ever since the publication of his 1998 book “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslim leaders condemned as blasphemous.
Chautauqua, where Salman Rushdie was attacked, has a long history of promoting free speech and learning for the public good
L.E. Walker/New York Public Library On Aug. 20, 2022, a large crowd gathered in front of the New York Public Library to hear prominent authors such as Kiran Desai, Gay Talese and Colum McCann read from novelist Salman Rushdie’s works. The event was organized as a demonstration of support for Rushdie after he was brutally attacked during a lecture on Aug. 12.
Finding Hope in Theatre That Hasn’t Happened Yet: How to Survive a Global Pandemic — Sightlines
To be a university student right now is to occupy a space of uncertainty and blame. Will universities meet face to face this fall? The plans that have been announced range from fully in person like Perdue University to full online like the entire California State system. Young people have become the nation’s favorite guilty party as everyone from the governor of Texas to U.S. Vice President hold them responsible for explosion of coronavirus outbreaks.
Theatre and the Last Pandemic
The Oakland Municipal Auditorium in use as a temporary hospital during the 1918 flu epidemic. Volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to the sick. So far 2020 has not turned out to be the theatre year anyone anticipated. By mid-March theatres across the United States had closed their doors, canceled the remainder of their seasons, and in most cases announced layoffs and furloughs, all thanks to mandates for social distancing to stem the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Defense of Diversity Statements
The Chronicle Review Randy Lyhus for The Chronicle By Charlotte M. Canning and Richard Reddick January 11, 2019 Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today In a recent Chronicle Review essay, Jeffrey Flier repudiated the growing practice of asking faculty members to include diversity statements in their hiring, promotion, and review materials. On the face of it, Flier’s argument is reasonable and...
The novel and play that predicted Donald Trump's rise
Donald Trump's campaign isn't the first time our nation has grappled with demagogue politicians and hate speech. These days, the Great Depression-era work of author and playwright Sinclair Lewis feels pointedly new again. In the early 1930s, the world’s prospects could not have been bleaker, and global unemployment rates were between 25 percent to 33 percent. It was a calamity. And most feared democracy was not up to the task.
The novel and play that predicted Donald Trump’s rise - and countered a swell of Great Depression demagoguery
The performing arts and politics have an uneasy relationship. From Aristophanes satirizing the senselessness of the Peloponnesian War in Lysistrata to Shakespeare telling the story of Elizabeth I’s grandparents in Henry IV Parts I and II, artists have put forth sharp criticisms of their governments. Artists in Russia and Germany during the 1910s and 1920s created art that supported communism.
The novel and play that predicted Donald Trump's rise
The performing arts and politics have an uneasy relationship. From Aristophanes satirizing the senselessness of the Peloponnesian War in Lysistrata to Shakespeare telling the story of Elizabeth I’s grandparents in Henry IV Parts I and II, artists have put forth sharp criticisms of their governments. Artists in Russia and Germany during the 1910s and 1920s created art that supported communism.
Ridley Scott's casting of white actors is symptomatic of larger problems
Director Ridley Scott recently set off a firestorm when he dismissed those who criticized him for casting white actors as every major character in the recently released Exodus: Gods and Kings, while reserving roles like “Egyptian thief, "royal servant,” and “Egyptian lower class civilian” for actors of color. “I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” he told Variety.
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