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Rosalía pictured in cover art photoshoot for her fourth studio album, LUX. (Kannapolis, N.C.) — Late last year, Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía released an art pop project unrivaled by any album released in the last decade. LUX , the singer’s fourth studio album, is a transformational experiment in modern orchestra, themes of religious uncertainty, the application of history in contemporary art, and the disconnect between life in a material world and grappling with your com

Pulitzer prize winner and MacArthur Genius grant recipient Prof. Jericho Brown reading selected works at the 17th Annual Robert E. Price Poetry Festival to an audience in Chestertown, MD (CHESTERTOWN, MD) – Last Saturday night, the MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown inspired tears, laughter, and love at his reading of a collection of his own poetry during the 17th Annual Robert E. Price Poetry Festival. During a Q&A session after he

The Case Against Dr. Frankenstein

(NORWALK, CT) – I have often asked myself what does it even mean to be brave? When you do something, do you do it for yourself, for someone else, is the act of questioning yourself making you better or worse. Those are the thoughts that have occupied my mind for some time now. Why do we do the things that we do, and does questioning our actions improve or worsen them?

The Parnassuss by Raphael, Creative Commons

CONNECTICUT — This essay has been adapted from an assignment from Yale’s Massive Open Online Course “America’s Written Constitution”...

NEW YORK CITY – Kaissereich , the mod to HOI IV, one of Paradox ’s hit games that explores World War II, is a cultural symbol for one, ephemeral, yet uniquely countercultural man, woman, or non-binary person: the teenage dirtbag. As a currently 18 year old owner I of capital, anti-capitalist, let me explain the contradictions of this uniquely online group of gamers who are almost totally Gen-Z, and spent the large chunk of their adolescence largely in the throes of the corona

Design Courtesy of John-Michael Valat De Cordova NEW YORK CITY – This “ ete indien ”, I want to consider the fools, the uncs, and the...

Cover for the Novel "Outside in a Desert's Winter Wonder-land" by John Michael Valat de Cordova, Courtesy of John Michael Valat de...

Reneé Rapp in New York City for her Everything to Everyone tour, courtesy of WikiMedia accessed 08/05/2025, taken 02/06/2022 NEW YORK...

Parthenon in Athens, Greece, Creative Commons (This was an adapted Seminar essay for St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM) SANTA FE, NM — There is a question which has been sitting with this author since it was first posed in Seminar some time ago. Why does it seem that the Sophists are hated? To examine this question narrowly this essay is only on the hatred seen in Plato's Protagoras. As someone who has been hated plenty- sometimes for justifiable reasons, others simply becau

By Raphael - Jean-Pol GRANDMONT Taken on 29 September 2011, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17000363 SANTA FE — Much of the St. John’s College program is dedicated to a pursuit of what could be seen as the truth. A truth in philosophy that we examine in a seminar, a truth in experimentation which we find in our Laboratory tutorials, and a truth of pure and historic mathematics that is pursued in mathematics tutorials. In this essay I plan to exa