Tag: Richard

A camera is a weapon in some instances. In others, it is an extension of the caring eye. — Wilson Harris, The Unfinished Genesis of The Imagination (1992) The face speaks to me, and thereby invites me to a relation. — Emmanuel Lévinas, Totality and Infinity...

I do not like having been right about this, but he’s since leaned farther into amplifying anti-transgender voices. This summer of 2023, he started a new podcast, The Poetry of Reality. On July 29, he dedicated one of his first episodes to a conversation with Helen Joyce, advocacy direc...

I quite like Richard Ayoade. I’ve never been much of a fan of The IT Crowd, and that has nothing to do with ol’ angry twitter man ‘Glinner’, I just don’t find it especially funny. But Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, that shit had me howling, and the charact...

I do not like having been right about this, but he’s since leaned farther into amplifying anti-transgender voices. This summer of 2023, he started a new podcast, The Poetry of Reality. On July 29, he dedicated one of his first episodes to a conversation with Helen Joyce, advocacy direc...

The 24th and final part of Richard Siken’s poem “You Are Jeff” explores the ways we say “I love you” without words. The poem positions the reader intimately within the lines through the use of second person point of view. The use of the personal pronoun “you&rdquo...

Hanania made those remarks in the early to mid-2010s. Since then, he has discarded his pseudonym, earned a law degree from the University of Chicago, a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA , somewhat sanitized his views, and has become a thought leader in anti-woke and Right-wing circles. Ha...

Albert Einstein is considered one of the greatest physicists of all time, arguably also the most popular. Everyone in the scientific community, at least, knows that Einstein is best known for his theories of relativity, the idea of gravitation, time, and space that transformed our understanding of t...

In the 1930s, math was taught only up till trigonometry in high schools. It was quite unusual to have a math instructor for Calculus. The legendary physicist & Nobel Prize winner, Richard Feynman, was studying at Far Rockaway High School in New York at the time. Unlike other...

The English monarch Richard III, whom Shakespeare portrayed as a megalomaniacal, malevolent hunchback, is one of the most famous villains in history. But while we’ve got lengthy regard that Richard met defeat and suffered his loss of life at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, it remained a ...

On March 30, during the Awards Breakfast at the Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) in Hartford, I made public an open secret: the decades-long collusion of leaders in the public history field — including leadership of the NCPH, academic historians, museum directors...