: "This is a claim of sovereign authority. This is a claim that the president has the power to declare a state of exception around a group of people and expel them from the nation — no questions asked. It is anti-constitutional — a negation of the right to be free, in Locke’s words, of 'the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.' There is nothing in this vision of presidential power that limits it to foreign nationals. Who is to say, under the logic of the Department of Justice, that the president could not do the same to a citizen ..read more

: “I used to go to BAM in the ’80s and ’90s once every couple of weeks and I’ve only been a couple times a year in the last few years. Sometimes the programming wasn’t something I was so into — not as experimental. I like stuff that’s way out on a limb.” It might be added that BAM's current production of is not, contrary to what the article claims, "the sort of buzzy production that was once a staple of the Brooklyn Academy of Music." The institution reached its peak offering Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, Mark Morris, Anderson herself, and other art ..read more

As the son and grandson of career-long employees of the US Geological Survey, I found this tremendously sad to read: "At U.S.G.S. and other Interior agencies, thousands of emerging scientists saw their careers cut short. And, in fields such as geology and ecology, many were women. 'My graduate program, my cohort, was ten women and five men,' Mary said. 'Participation was being broadened among younger people ..read more

: "The real import of Roberts’s language here is not that it gave Trump a shield from prosecution (though that was the immediate result); the ruling gave Trump a 'sword' to brandish across the executive branch—which is exactly why laws, institutions, and what remains of the constitutional order are being slashed to bits in Trump’s Washington now ..read more

The creative team behind the 2016 opera composer Gregory Spears, librettist Greg Pierce, director Kevin Newbury, producer Jecca Barry, and novelist Thomas Mallon — have decided to their work from the 2025-26 season of Washington National Opera, in protest of Trump's hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. They write in a statement: "The expansion of freedom and liberty for all people are core values of the opera and the book upon which it is based. The current administration’s takeover of the Kennedy Center and many of its policies contradict those values." In light of ..read more

                        — Laurie Anderson, "Another Day in America ..read more

of this piece by Josef Hofmann ..read more

of this piece by Josef Hofmann ..read more

FW Murnau, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Max Reinhardt, Douglas Sirk, Robert and Curt Siodmak, Max Ophuls, Edgar Ulmer, Conrad Veidt, Karl Freund, Elisabeth Bergner, Helmut Dantine, Vicki Baum, Curtis Bernhardt ..read more

FW Murnau, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Max Reinhardt, Douglas Sirk, Robert and Curt Siodmak, Max Ophuls, Edgar Ulmer, Conrad Veidt, Karl Freund, Elisabeth Bergner, Helmut Dantine, Vicki Baum, Curtis Bernhardt ..read more