The Scholars Charting Black Music’s Timeline: Earl Stewart and Michael Veal
Carnegie Hall recently released the Timeline of African American Music, an interactive project led by ethnomusicologist Portia K. Maultsby. The timeline reveals the history of genre and style of Black...
Security Studies: Foundations and Key Concepts
...Foreign Affairs, Part 2.” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 1983. As the Soviet bloc weakened and more developing nations abandoned socialist experiments, liberalism re-emerged in the field during the 1980s. Michael...
What is Dance Activism?
...“up-rise,” considering the physical act as neither passive nor weak but rather, purposeful in its resistance. https://youtu.be/SeE5uUk_5_g The gesture within choreography is almost always meaningful, but philosophy professor and dance...
Octavia Butler’s Roots in Black History
...mired in a wish to return to a more stable past. In contrast, Lauren’s Earthseed philosophy and organization offers a vision for escaping historical patterns and becoming something new, consciously...
Carbon Offsets for the Hadza People, Swedish Meals, and Freedom in Taoism
...and duty to the state. But how did its sometimes radical ideas about personal freedom play out in Chinese philosophy and politics? The Power of Poop (Wired) by Jenny Morber...
Terence McKenna’s Anarchic Psychedelic Religion
...a religion and a radical political philosophy. McKenna entered the world of psychedelics—or entheogens, a term Monteith prefers for its more spiritual connotations—at a time when the popular perception of...
Words on the Way In: A Retrospective
“One cannot step in the same river twice,” states Heraclitus; “Panta rhei (transl. all flows).” Paradoxically, change being a predictable constant in life may be one of the most prevailing...
Were Early American Prisons Similar to Today’s?
...for sleeping. via Wikimedia Commons A new philosophy in corrections and political theory more broadly dictated that prisons should be economically self-sustaining. The administration desired to offset the cost of...
Tchaikovsky’s Patroness
...politics and philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe. The 1970 book 84, Charing Cross Road, along with its 1987 film adaptation (starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins) is about the amiable solidarity...
What Coca Means in Peru
... Contact Us You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the provided link on any marketing message. Δ “This custom is an integral part of Andean philosophy, which...