As we begin a new year at Northwestern, we are looking at a new set of regulations that govern protest. Like at other universities, last spring raised some level of national trauma — but unlike many ...
Mr. T is famous for pitying the fool and being a mighty man, but before that he was a part of the Dunbar MightyMen, one of ...
Many ancient Greek statues depict male figures with what we might consider today to be small penises. This is quite ...
Malky Berkowitz, who married her husband after a 15-minute in-person meeting, alleged he physically assaulted her and was ...
Regular readers will recall my fondness for Lord Falkland’s observation that “when it is not necessary to change, it is ...
The assault on LGBTQ people from right wing Republicans continues unabated. In 2024 alone, 527 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the U.S. attacking the rights of queer ...
Brooklyn-based activist Adina Sash received a phone call she had long awaited: Malky Berkowitz, 29, a fellow Orthodox woman, ...
The terrorist threat is once again shaking Europe. And it takes a lot of censorship to hide the facts. Read them ...
“Lysistrata Jones,” a new musical by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, is a modern riff on Aristophanes’ bawdy comedy.
Zeus is also perfect to poke fun at. The ancients did it; in Aristophanes’ comedic play The Birds, for example, Zeus’ all-seeing vision is blocked by merely a raised parasol. Perhaps the best ...
Almost always, just an apostrophe will do: “Socrates’ dialogues” and “Aristophanes’ comedies.” Punctuation makes a difference and can even save lives as in “Let’s eat Grandma” vs.