The Theatre of Thought

The other day I subjected myself to more than six hours of continual theatre, attending Elevator Repair Service’s “Gatz” at the American Rep...

I have just come back from two weeks of discussing the nature of civic society and citizenship at Tufts university . It was a remarkable exp...

"Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice" at Boston's MFA is remarkable, particularly for the way it has c...

On Tuesday I found myself on the dance floor in a Salsa club, celebrating my girlfriend's birthday. I'm not much of a Salsa dancer (...

I've slightly altered the description of this blog in order to highlight a change in perspective: instead of "just" investigat...

If we humanists cannot congregate around religion, around what can we congregate? This is a question I frequently return to when thinking wh...

It’s been a while, but this production really sparked my interest. As part of the Catalyst Collaborative, a partnership between MIT and the ...