Posted: Sep 27th, 2010 | Comments: 2
Quality, Taste, and Style: An Evening with Tim Gunn
One of the hottest reality shows, Project Runway, introduced the world to the suave and unflappable Tim Gunn, former chair of the Fashion Design department at ...
Women in Charge: The Evolving Role of Women in Politics
For the first time in over 200 years, a woman serves as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This year, we witnessed the historic campaign of the country's ...
Posted: Jul 28th, 2010 | Comments: 2
Phillip Lopate is the author most recently of Two Marriages. He has written eleven books, including a trio of essay collections, Bachelorhood, ...
Posted: Jul 9th, 2010 | Comments: 2
Then and Now: Fighting the Deregulation Ideology
In the aftermath of Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, Paul Spyros Sarbanes, former Senator from Maryland, broke the deregulation mold and passed one of the most significant corporate reform ...
Posted: Dec 9th, 2008 | Comments: 2
The Time is Now: An Equity Agenda to End Poverty
With a new administration, now is the time for the United States to address its seemingly intractable problem of poverty. But to accomplish this, we need a new understanding of ...
Posted: Dec 4th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Catherine Sullivan: Public Art Fund Talks
Catherine Sullivan’s work oscillates between the uncanny and camp, eliciting a profound critique of “acceptable” behavior in today’s media-saturated society. Her anxiety inducing films and live performances reveal the ...
Posted: Nov 19th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Linda Nochlin on the Goals of Art Criticism
The goals of art history differ from the goals of art criticism. Professor Linda Nochlin, art historian and Professor of Modern Art at New York University, addresses these ...
Posted: Nov 10th, 2008 | Comments: 0
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
While liberals continue to believe in the free market, conservatives have abandoned it all together. If conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals? Why keep liberal thought ...
Posted: Oct 20th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Food Writing Forum: Edible Manhattan
From the Upper East Side to the East Village, Manhattan seems to have infinite choices of where to eat. Edible Manhattan is a new quarterly magazine that investigates ...
Posted: Oct 16th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the New Asian Age
In the late 18th century, political economist Adam Smith predicted there would eventually be equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. He described the possibility that ...
Posted: Oct 15th, 2008 | Comments: 0
