Shakespeare’s Ultimate Crip Text

In a new Richard III, populism is the pathology

When I bought my ticket for this summer’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard III at the Globe Theater in London, I chose a seat under cover of the rafters rather than a place standing directly in front of the stage—a distinction designed to echo the several ways that Elizabethans could experience ...
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Shakespeare’s Ultimate Crip Text

The Humanities As a Theory of Change

The career of Ruth Simmons is a lesson in humanities methodology

At a moment when state auditors are scrutinizing higher education budgets with an eye to trimming humanities majors and offerings out of existence, we’d do well to pause and reflect on the career of the distinguished educator Ruth Simmons....

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The Humanities As a Theory of Change