This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: The New Yorker
9/25/2020
Hinton’s work as a cinematographer and filmmaker achieved a similar balance between taking in the grander sweep of history and considering the nature, appearance, manner, and presence of the individual people making it.
Source: BBC
9/25/2020
While advocates see reinterrment at the National Mausoleum as a recognition of gay contributors to French literary history, some opponents suggest the iconoclastic poets would have rejected any such honor.
Source: New Statesman
9/23/2020
Stephen Wertheim questions whether politicians will heed the overwhelming public desire to scale back military intervention and get the Pentagon's spending under control.
Source: The New Republic
9/24/2020
The conduct of the Trump administration shows a long trend of increased presidential power must be stopped.
Source: Washington Post
9/28/2020
Massimo Faggioli, a church historian and theologian at Villanova University, a Catholic school, studies these lay-led movements — also called “renewal” groups — that began popping up since Vatican II. While some are a source of spiritual energy, they may also reflect militance and untransparent leadership.
Source: The Guardian
9/28/2020
"Art shouldn’t be polite. Guston’s work puts you into a headlock and forces you to stare into the face of evil, rearranging your sense of reality into a better one – and that’s what art needs to do more than ever."
Source: The New Yorker
9/28/2020
As one of the first women to forge a successful career as a painter, Artemisia was celebrated internationally in her lifetime, but her reputation languished after her death.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/28/2020
Graduate programs in humanities and social sciences, including in history, face difficult decisions about how matriculating new graduate students as the pandemic makes a bad job market eve worse and makes many established forms of research impossible to conduct.
Source: NPR
9/24/2020
NPR's "Throughline" examines the growth of evangelical christianity as a political movement and its influence over the nomination of a Supreme Court justice and the election.
Source: New York Times
9/25/2020
Presidents throughout American history have strategized to influence the timing of justices’ exits to suit various White House priorities.
Source: Mother Jones
9/24/2020
People of Praise evolved in response to the reforms of Vatican II and the spiritual energy of evangelical Protestantism; former adherents say that the control the group exerts over members makes questions about Amy Comey Barrett's membership legitimate.
Source: New York Times
9/25/2020
Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power reviews Susan Glasser and Peter Baker's new biography of Republican Party stalwart James Baker III.
Source: New York Times
9/26/2020
“I’m learning a lot of this embarrassingly late in the game,” Mr. Levy said during the first discussion. “But ultimately these stories are crucial to the identity of our country.”
Source: New York Magazine
9/26/2020
For Schlafly's successors in the Christian right, there is now one acceptable way to take a piece of male authority for themselves, and it runs through professional anti-feminism.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/25/2020
Governing boards of public university systems have become partisan battlegrounds, putting politics ahead of academics on campus.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
9/22/2020
In June, leaders formally acknowledged the department’s past role in perpetuating racism and so-called “lost cause” ideals.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
9/22/2020
Adrian College planned to terminate history, philosophy, religion and more -- until graduates organized to stop it. Faculty members still don't understand why the programs were threatened.
Source: Washington Post
9/24/2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's research trip to Sweden at age 29 challenged her to see that gendered divisions of labor and opportunity in American society were not automatic or necessary.
Source: Iowa Public Radio
9/23/2020
Poet James Autry's newest book tells the story of his cousin, a white man who remained in Mississippi as a liberal advocate for integration and justice.
Source: New York Times
9/22/2020
The British historic preservation agency has begun to grapple with how to present the historic connections between properties it manages and fortunes built through slavery and colonialism.
