by Linda McInerney | May 30, 2012 | The Public Humanist
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” –Albert Einstein It struck me as I was standing on the lip of the stage at the opening of TRUTH, the new folk opera about Sojourner Truth that we commissioned two years ago. There was a collective joy that all...
by Daniel John Carroll | Jun 4, 2012 | The Public Humanist
The literature on the philosophy of music consists, by and large, of works that promote one of the two rather antithetical ideologies. First, there are the musical formalists who believe that the true target of our artistic admiration is the purely structural nature...
by Brian Fairley | Jun 7, 2012 | The Public Humanist
The first time I remember consciously thinking about the music in a movie was probably the fifteenth time I watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. As I recall, my older brother bought the VHS tape soon after it was released, and though there was some hesitation...
by Susan Stinson | Jun 12, 2012 | The Public Humanist
I’m a novelist. I want people to read fiction for the experience: for language, pleasure and love. I was shocked when I realized how many people I knew rarely read novels. For me, reading fiction is a nightly ritual, a regular transition from waking to sleep. I...
by Dan Gordon | Jun 18, 2012 | The Public Humanist
When The Public Humanist asked me to write on “what every college student needs to know about history,” it looked like an easy assignment. Within seconds I had made a list. Every college student should know about: The origins and key ideas of the great...
