The arts are often written off as worthless, or certainly not worth the federal funding that they receive. But young poets ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Bais Rivkah High School student Bryna Sudak won a schoolwide competition with a spoken-word poem called 'Flames,' explaining the Chassidic concept of faith in Hashem during pain. Watch her moving and ...

I remember just being astonished by the representations of the gods. The omnipresence of the gods in the world of the Iliad, ...

One theory about Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings books is that he parallels J.R.R. Tolkien’s devout Catholicism, ...

The Syrian regime’s brutal response to protests with bullets set this grim reality in motion: from the very beginning of the Syrian uprising (March 2011) ...

The study of the human condition has long been fragmented into distinct silos, dividing the humanities from the interpretive social sciences. While each of these disciplines addresses vital questions ...

Yuki] Tanaka’s singular view, somewhat detached yet not lacking in compassion, soberly reckoning while allowing for flights ...

FOR THE EARS Pro Musica Explores Native American and Japanese Musical Worlds Pro Musica’s penultimate orchestra concerts of 2024-2025 explore themes of cultural convergence and conflict through music ...

As fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo rages on, a growing number of women in the country are turning to slam poetry ...

The agency is reconsidering rules that limit climate pollution from cars and power plants, regulations that limit soot ... because he wants peace that addresses "the root of the conflict." NPR's ...

The Power, Conflict, Resistance cluster grew out of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict. It brings together staff and research students interested in racism and colonialism, the struggle ...