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Calling It Something Else What is the definition of a combat soldier? ... Aw give it to Montesquieu....
War Crimes? A Zen Question If someone commits a crime and everyone sees it and does nothing, is it still a crime?...
The Limits Of Self-Plagiarization A tiff with an editor sparks a debate about the future of arts journalism...
A Laurafied Declaration ...about women's rights. Such a humanitarian!...
Cuts that leave a mark Madison's Overture Center for the Arts digs deep to break even....
Prop 8 The Musical Hooray for Mark Shaiman's new musical about Proposition 8...
What It Will Take To Improve Arts Education The education field is littered with school reform interventions, large and small, smart and dumb, often disconnected from where the...
Kids at La Boheme The eternal puzzle of getting more young bums on seats...
Prop 8 The Musical Hooray for Mark Shaiman's new musical about Proposition 8...
This Week: A Debate on Arts Education "If, as we argue, arts learning is critical to the healthy functioning of the entire cultural system, then arts policies...
Words of Gratitude Given the so-called change coming to the BananaRepublic, it may be seen as cynical to recall this Thanksgiving Prayer....
Theatre Rhino Secedes From California The Bay Area's flagship queer theatre company takes a stand against the Golden State...
Shacking up The benefits and boondoggles of sharing expressive space....
Ralph Nader's Blunder Unless he wants to be perceived as racist, he should have apologized for calling Obama an "Uncle Tom"....
We got there: Obama invokes Martin Luther King Jr.'s final, Moses on the mountain top speech to show how much closer we've come...
New Day Rising Twenty years later, an American punk-rock song that would make a good inauguration theme...
After The Election ...my old buddy told me, with considerable heat, he was ashamed that I had touched a black woman...
The scribbling class, the yawning ass Why saying you're "bored" doesn't cut it...
Yes, we can ...be classical musicians and publicize our politics. Perlman comes out against Proposition 8 while Pollini shows Obama pride....
Democracy at Work Here in New York City, here's how that goes....
How to make lazy, sleepy, or dopey friends and relatives laugh --and get them to the polls ontime....
Philanthropy in economic hard times We might expect declining giving in a declining market, but historical data suggest otherwise....