I think we share a specific kind of sadness

Mildly interesting that softies don't know what historians are but they also consider themselves to be very smart people

I had been set on voting for Juliana, but this is making me rethink my choice!

Can't believe candidates aren't being more aggressive on housing affordability.

super bowl ads were much less fun this year, they all seemed to be screaming that we are headed toward 40% unemployment

Interestingly, caleb williams and the bears would never give you an underwhelming super bowl

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Mills recognized that as the power elite becomes increasingly degenerate, it is increasingly difficult for their intellectual acolytes to formulate reasonable ideological justifications for their corrupt and irresponsible actions. In these circumstances, the power elite resorts to intellectual repression against those who call attention to their declining political capacities; that is, the intelligentsia who work in universities, museums, the arts, scientific institutes, entertainment, and the mass media.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago.

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So jealous!!! How was it?

Still to come this year are 2 new operas from Missy Mazzoli as well as fascinating new works by Gregory Spears and Kevin Day.

The Monkey King is a bona fide blockbuster which has breathed new life into the genre. It will be amazing to see how this enlivens opera houses over the course of the next decade.

Kavalier and Clay also seems to be a popular hit, although not to the same degree.

Amidst this slew of new operas, which could have been the last large scale American commissions, the hit that has been needed for a century is finally found.

opera has been *dying* for the new pieces by Michael R. Jackson and avery r. young this spring. finally!!!

It is insane that missy mazzoli operas aren't part of American pop culture

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

From Massachusetts: Moby-Dick, A Nantucket Sleigh Ride Of An Adventure - New York Stage Review ★★★★☆ It has to be said: Dave Malloy’s Melville adaptation is a whale of a show

Yep! A great one by Dave Malloy

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Imagine if we had to follow the Constitution. Imagine!

i always consider choosing to get out of europe in the early 1900s one of the most clutch decisions in world history

it would be iconic for bill clinton to testify to congress that trump blew him

I often wonder how much money it would take to make the museum of science and industry not bad. But increasingly i'm thinking money is not the core problem

All you gotta do is read the Trib’s editorial board’s thoughts to immediately understand what the most incorrect position is in any given circumstance

Seriously????

I was hoping people would be turned off by vance

as a culture we scrolled way too quickly past the rfk jr roseanne barr dead bear video

New plays by matthew c yee, preston max allen, hanna kime, and tarell alvin mccraney this spring have got me so stoked

extremely important for the CSO to play phillip glass's lincoln symphony asap and for all of chicago to turn out

Joe Biden was the best domestic policy Democrat since Lyndon Johnson. He was also the worst foreign policy Democrat since Lyndon Johnson.

How was it???

Don't people usually name things after people they respect and admire instead of themselves?

It would have been much funnier and more appropriate if he had renamed it the Roy Cohn-Kennedy Center

“At NSF, the net reduction of 205 STEM Ph.D.s between 1 January and 30 November constituted 40% of its total pre-Trump Ph.D. workforce of 517, by far the largest percentage at any agency. STEM Ph.D.s also make up a larger percentage of the total workforce at NSF than at any other agency…”.

The reality of the situation is that whatever Trump personally thinks about anything, he is allowing Stephen Miller to run his administration because he is lazy and stupid, and the entire decision-making apparatus on immigration has been infested with Nazis.