“Blueprint for Paradise”: A polished drama about Nazis for our time
The ruins of the Murphy Ranch, an abandoned pre-WWII Nazi compound in Pacific Palisades, have inspired a new play.
New history (with comics) recounts humanity’s long march toward reason
These stories of humanists through history are framed as struggles against the authority of the church, which controlled almost every aspect of life for millennia.
New book explores the roots of the term “White trash”
Some landless whites in early America who survived war, workhouses, prostitution, and press gangs ditched their poverty wages and constricted lives and lit out for the territories.
Author Roy Speckhardt: “Can we create change through humanism?"
"Humanists understand that this is the only life we have, and this planet is the only place we have to live it."
This week in history: “Towards the future” honors Bastille Day
July 14th is Bastille Day, the holiday commemorating the fall of the Bastille prison at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.
Independence Day: Let America be America again
In a time when demagogues try to convince us that America needs to be "great again," Hughes reminds us of the dream of what America could be.
“Home/Sick” stages the 1970s Weathermen movement with explosive impact
In the waning days of the Vietnam War, democracy itself seemed to have ground to a halt. A newly re-staged play delves into that period.
“The Americans”: Who thrives, survives
On this series, many of our questions to be answered next year and many new ones to be posed.
Spies R Us: Keeping it in the family on “The Americans”
Viewers spent some uncomfortable time in character Elizabeth Jennings' shoes.
New book offers inside look at Soviet Communist Party discipline
Being a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union wasn't just an honor; it required strict discipline and moral obligations.
