Hypocrisy about Hypocrisy: The Creation of Selves
Hypocrisy has been given a bad rap. What is hypocrisy, after all, but the acting out of a role, the attempt to be someone other than who we really are? Wayne Booth, the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language and...
Hatshepsut: Wicked Stepmother or Joan of Arc?
Hatshepsut was an Eighteenth-Dynasty pharaoh, one of a handful of female rulers in ancient Egypt. Because Hatshepsut's monuments were defaced by her stepson, Tuthmose III, following her death in about 1458 BCE, historians have characterized her not onl...
Fragmentation and Cybercascades
The ability to personalize your own news page--to create, in the words of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, the 'Daily Me'--is often hailed as one of the great benefits of the World Wide Web. In cyberspace, consumers can filter out the news that doesn't inter...
Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency
Before it was ousted from power in Afghanistan, the Taliban was seen in the West as a retrograde regime whose intense misogyny and hatred of all things modern was typical of Islamic fundamentalism. Hollywood celebrities and the Feminist Majority campai...
Family Values in Ancient Rome
The phrase 'family values' often conjures an image of a close-knit, loving nuclear family. How real is this vision of the model family, and has it ever existed in history? Ancient Romans, just as we are today, were anxious about the moral decline of th...
Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
Although popular with foreign audiences, Chinese experimental art is still struggling for acceptance at home. As a form of art that seeks to position itself apart from official and academic art, experimental art has faced strict government censorship. ...
Equal Protection? The Supreme Court's Decision in Bush v. Gore
In a ruling that ended the contentious recount battle in Florida and effectively decided the 2000 presidential election, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Florida's highest court had violated the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to th...
Poetry reading by Forrest Gander
Born in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and spent significant periods in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas before moving to Rhode Island in 1982. He holds degrees in both...
Lecture by poet Forrest Gander
A lecture by Forrest Gander as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago.
Poetry reading by Jim Powell and Ralph Johnson
A poetry reading by Jim Powell and Ralph Johnson as part of the Poem Present series at the University of Chicago. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago.