morning lecture

Nancy Gibbs and David Von Drehle have been talking with one another for 30-some years. Their joint presence on the Amphitheater stage Thursday morning, therefore, was more a continuation of a decades-long conversation than anything

What does cinematic horror have to tell us about the horrors of history? To speak of history’s horrors, or historical trauma, is to recognize events as wounds. Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Vietnam. These are names associated with

A priest, a rabbi and an imam walk into a bar. A blonde, a brunette and a redhead board a plane. Kelly Carlin, Kliph Nesteroff and Stephen J. Morrison take the Amphitheater stage. The rule

Lewis Black has been angry about politics for a long time. And he’s been letting that anger out through comedy for nearly as long. Keeping up the act isn’t always easy, though. “The hard thing