Banned Books and Freedom of Expression The right to free expression is severely threatened in many...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ This lecture considers ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ from Carousel (1945)...
Unwrapping Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas" This festive lecture explores the unusual roots of the song...
Houston, We Have a Problem: How the Fossil Fuel Industry is Risking Our Future and Your Pension When oil and gas industry leaders flew into Houston for...
Making Sense of Conspiracy Theories With Brexit, the US presidential election and the Covid pandemic...
Bach’s Invention: The Divine Trickery of J.S. Bach Behind the sublime precision and expressive power of Bach’s music...
The Sondheim Showstopper: ‘Send in the Clowns’ 'Send in the Clowns’ was probably the most commercially successful...