by Hayley Wood | Sep 10, 2007 | The Public Humanist
Cultural organizations in general and state humanities councils in particular have long struggled with the question of how to evaluate what they do. Is a good head-count at an event sufficient? Is a high level of engagement during a post-performance talk-back adequate...
by Bob Meagher | Aug 27, 2007 | The Public Humanist
A couple of weeks ago, when I was in Ireland, one of the foreign ambassadors posted there (who I suspect would prefer to be left unnamed) told a story at a dinner party. It went like this. The United Nations recently sponsored an international survey, asking the...
by John Hill | Sep 13, 2007 | The Public Humanist
I recently heard from an alumnus who was being sent back to Iraq for his second tour of duty there. This news elicited all sorts of emotions, sadness and anger in particular. The sadness stems from concerns about the fundamental wrongheadedness of unilateral US...
by Advocate Staff | Aug 29, 2007 | The Public Humanist
For the last six months or so my wife and I have been having a low-level argument about whether or not we should put a bedskirt on the bed in our guest room (pictured above). My wife’s argument can be summarized thusly:The metal bed frame is cheap, and the box...
by Brian Glyn Williams | Sep 17, 2007 | The Public Humanist
In 2001 I traveled across the war-blackened villages of Kosovo and saw first hand the evidence of Serbian atrocities carried out against the region’s indigenous Kosovar Albanian population. All of these horrors had been carried out in blatant disregard for...
