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Jazz’s Rise, Fall and Continuing Legacy
How jazz moved from a position of dominance in popular music to a niche music but also to the status of Black classical music.
Rights Consciousness
Rights are a product of conflict, resistance, struggle and negotiation, not consensus.
Using the Past to Inform the Present, Part 2
How history can further illuminate our understanding of drug and alcohol use.
Using the Past to Inform the Present, Part 1
How history can illuminate our understanding of drug and alcohol use.
The Two Americas
Economic shifts, cultural rifts and emerging political fault lines.
Cancer and the Human Condition, Part 2
Further reflections on how the humanities can help us process and cope with acute illness.
Cancer and the Human Condition, Part 1
How the humanities can help us process and cope with acute illness.
How Campuses Might Become More Dynamic, Responsive and Financially Sustainable
Substack provides a potential blueprint for university outreach and faculty empowerment.