Noam Chomsky speaks on Howard Zinn this Sunday at SUNY-New Paltz
I’ve always wanted to own a tee-shirt inscribed with the words “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” That’s Noam Chomsky’s famous example of an utterance that any native English-speaker would recognize as absolutely grammatical…
“Cross-Dressing, Misrule and Mayhem: Christmas before Santa in Early America”
Most of us are aware by now that a lot of the revelries that we associate with Christmas actually predate Christianity, reflecting Yule or Midwinter rituals of the Celts and Saxons. In centuries…
SUNY-New Paltz stages Fat Ram, two Medieval plays
Life in Europe’s Middle Ages was short and brutish: an epoch of miserable cold beset by plague, a time when to be an outcast meant that you risked being burned at the stake…
Dorsky unveils new show & hosts collecting symposium
Creation. Appreciation. Supply and demand. Does an individual artwork ever truly pass into oblivion? Such textual considerations, and many more, will arise as part of a November 12 symposium on “Curating and Collecting…
