2016 News
October
October 12, 2016 – from Time Magazine
Chris Lane's op-ed in TIME magazine casts a light on Norman Vincent Peale and Roy Cohn and how they inspired Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.
April
Freshman Luke Peterson, a student of Jay Grossman, talks about his musical response to Harriet Beecher Stowe
April 14, 2016
Inspired by "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe’s seminal work, Luke Peterson, a first-year mathematics and physics major in Associate Professor Jay Grossman’s “Big Books” seminar, crafted a short blues composition titled “Feelings of Living Property,” a nod to the novel’s fifth chapter in which the title character is brutally sold from one slave owner to another. (Read More)
January
January 10, 2016 – from Salon
Two articles at Salon.com by Brian Edwards reflect on right-wing rhetoric, exceptionalism, and the destruction of the American century.
