This Academy Awards will see the reunion of alumni of one of Broadway’s most minor but beloved (by me) gems. By a quirk of timing, the 2022 nominees include three characters closely tied to a short-lived, comically low-stakes, gleefully exuberant soap bubble from a 2012 Broadway show: Bring It On: The Musical. Bring It On: … Read more
For the past 11 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has served as the principal of Morehouse College. Martin Luther King Jr Collection, where he oversees the archive consisting of iconic sermons, speeches, writings, and other materials belonging to King. Few archives of historical documents compare to the importance of the Morehouse King Collection. In … Read more
South African anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died on December 26, 2021, at the age of 90. Photo: AFP Agency At Johannesburg’s main airport, some 400 people were preparing to board flights to Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, South Africa. Almost all of them passed through security scanners to get … Read more
From his humble origins in Brooklyn – where he was born in 1912 – to the celebrity of the Nobel Prize in Economics – which was awarded to him in 1976 – Milton Friedman climbed all the steps of human growth. He drew on his own life when he stated bluntly that “institutions that treat … Read more
I confess that I am an advocate of the project beyond what its price in dollars represents. But we are going to study it impartially, analyzing some points that Eric Maskin (2007 Nobel Prize in Economics, Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University) has made publicly known very well, who considers himself a skeptic on the … Read more