Reconfigurable arts spaces like the Perelman PAC and the Shed rarely do more with more.

<p>When I heard that Rodney King had died, two details in particular stuck out to me. One was that he died in a swimming pool. The other was that, earlier that day, somebody had heard him scream.</p>

Madison, WI | October 15-17, 2026

Abstract Evidently, people love watching others pretend to be robots. This article uncovers hidden links between this practice and blackface performance, then theorizes the two as similarly metatheatr...

You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.

Before the apocalypse, there was the apocalypse of boats: boats of prisoners, boats cracking under sky-iron, boats making corpses bloom like algae on the shore. There was the apocalypse of the taxi dr...

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President Donald Trump’s approach pushes universities to decide whether to stand up for their values or to fold to keep funding intact.

This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.

Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

The Trump administration blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.

ALT: a cartoon of a lion with the words " and so we are all connected in the great circle of life " below it

Christopher Grobe

Professional Wrestling: Politics and Populism asks how professional wrestling is implicated in the current resurgence of populist politics, whether right-wing and Trump–inflected, or leftist and socia...

Alt: A pathetic man, not getting applause, pauses to say, "Please clap."