PART 1 Prologue The whole experience came out of the blue. I never expected anything remotely like this to happen. I was a theatrical novice…
“In the end what we need is some hygiene, some cleanliness, disinfection. We’re smothered by images, words and sounds that have no right to exist,…
In Stranger from Abroad: Hanna Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness by Daniel Maier-Katkin, I found remarkable words about ‘love, despair and emerging,’ which I…
“The dreams of reason produce monsters.” — Francisco de Goya The Power Struggle Over Ideas Is the community of the brainy ones among us more…
“A world of secret passions is perverting the men who make your laws.” — Frank Zappa Part 1 Can imprisonment of people for profit ever…
We had just celebrated the birthday of the Christian Lamb of God—he of the lineage of Abraham—accepted as the Savior in the West, the Near…
Chapter 1 The December 2013 Smithsonian has Ron Rosenbaum’s interview of stage and film director Julie Taymore—she of the glorious staging of The Lion King…
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” —Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac This is a taxonomy of types of secrets and…