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Arts & CultureIdeas
Mike Seay
Roger Ebert once said that “video games can never be art.” It is hard to make that case in 2020.
An illustration of the death of Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Illustration: Etching by George Cruikshank, 1852/Alamy).
Arts & CultureIdeas
Elizabeth Grace Matthew
In 1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe made feeling right on race easy, righteous and comfortable, all at once. We face the same trap today.
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Arts & CultureIdeas
Elyse Durham
To a world in upheaval, ballet is an emblem of calmer times.
James Baldwin was the author of The Fire Next Time among other works. He died in 1987 (Photo Credit: Dan Budnik)
Arts & CultureIdeas
Stephen G. Adubato
Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Kevin Jackson
Jason Isbell’s music dares us to practice intentional, engaged listening precisely because that is what Isbell himself is bringing to it.
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Jason M. Baxter
What did Notre-Dame mean? What did it feel like to step into it in the Middle Ages?