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This is how director Brandon J. Ortiz ’12 describes the new production of Stephen Schwartz’s “Working,” which explores the complexity of modern working lives through a series of songs and monologues. The play recounts the insights and hardships of actual people who hold many various jobs, such as waitresses, CEOs, hookers, teachers, truckers, and housewives...
...Eric Abrahamsen, a Beijing-based translator of modern Chinese fiction, it is clear that Mo Yan engages in the complex calculus of what is and isn't permissible that faces every Chinese writer. There is nothing wrong with that: not every artist has the stomach for strident dissent and, having been banned in the past, Mo Yan has nothing to prove. But these days, says Abrahamsen, Mo Yan "knows exactly where the lines are and doesn't cross them." Discussion about the drawbacks of the one-child policy, and whether it should be rolled back, is now permissible in China...
Francesco Lojacono, Amsterdam Simon Robinson's view of Europe is very depressing, because of its lucid accuracy. In these modern times it is hard to see Europe as a united global power. It was not always like that. There were times when Europe was united (the Roman Empire), powerful (colonial expansion) and wise (the Renaissance). What happened? (Read: "Why France is Selling Warships to Russia...
That part of Compton's rant is familiar territory for those caught up in the modern Sagebrush Rebellion, a land-rights movement that is spreading rapidly in Western states. Over the past few years, offices of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service have come under increasing attack by ranchers, farmers and loggers fed up with federal rules about land use, water rights and endangered habitats. In Nevada, where more than 80% of the state is public land, federal employees have been refused service in restaurants, taunted at public gatherings and harassed with vulgar gestures. In March...
...classic” fields of study as fundamentally more deserving of attention than others. Subjects like rhetoric, logic, and astronomy may have been the foundations of education in the classical world, but we are now two thousand years removed from the fall of Rome, and the academic occupations of modern scholars should necessarily be different from those of the ancients...