New Plays for New York: Isaac’s Eye at Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Flick at Playwrights Horizons by Dan Venning ** Isaac’s Eye. By Lucas Hnath. Directed by Linsay Firman. At the Ensemble Studio Theatre. 6...
The Radical Greens: How Divestment, Direct Action, and Leftist Politics are Shaping the Environmental Movement Just off the Washington Monument, there’s a mass of people in front of a soon to be lively stage....
The Passion of the 99% By James Hoff Tenth of December is George Saunders’ fourth collection of short stories, and it is perhaps his...
Landlords and Capitalists Cross-posted from MattBruenig.com. Jesse Myerson has an interesting piece about apartment rent out today. The piece is mainly...
Rent-Controlled by J.A. Myerson Some people somewhere own a real estate firm, which owns my apartment building. These people, whose...
The Trouble with Professor Petraeus By Arun Gupta When CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein announced that retired four-star General David Petraeus would be named Visiting...
Out with the Old, In with the…Same Old? What a couple of weeks it’s been at CUNY. Let’s start with Chancellor Matthew Goldstein’s retirement from the...
The Heroism of the Middle: Al Held’s Alphabet Paintings by Clay Matlin Allow me to begin with a personal anecdote: When I was in seventh grade in upstate...
April News from the DSC The 2013-2014 Doctoral Students’ Council elections are open, and students can submit their ballots online until April 30,...
Wild Bill Moves Up to CUNY Central GC President Bill Kelly was named interim chancellor of the CUNY system last night. This morning, he issued a...