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John Adams

You’ll Love This

Arts, Culture & Media

This weekend saw the opening of ‘I am Love,’ an Italian film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Tilda Swinton (performing in Italian). It’s beautiful to watch, but what’s really exciting is how beautiful it sounds. Pulitzer prize-winning composer John Adams is the source for the film’s sublime score. Ranging from urgent minimalism to modern […]

Protesters at the Metropolitan Opera

Was the Metropolitan Opera right to stage the allegedly anti-Semitic The Death of Klinghoffer?

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Classical composers create monuments to 9/11 in music

Arts, Culture & Media

Paul Giamatti

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Why We Cherish Letters

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge with David McCullough

Historian  David McCullough  is known for his biographies of monumental American figures: John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman. But McCullough second book, published in 1972, explored American history not through the eyes of a Founding Father or a President, but through one of the most important public works projects of all time: the Brooklyn Bridge. McCullough […]

A Force For Nature

For 40 years now, the environment has had a leading advocate. The NRDC or Natural Resources Defense Council has been at the forefront of many environmental battles in the nation. One of its founders, John Adams, chronicles the organization’s trials and tr

How to Move a Movement

John Adams, president and founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, takes a look back at the first Earth Day  ? the same day he opened NRDC for business  ? and how the environmental movement he saw back then was a very different animal from the on

The World

Letter debate

Arts, Culture & Media

In response to a new PR campaign by the US Poster Service, Fair Game’s Ed Herro and Jessica Vitkus debate the merits of old-fashioned letter writing.

The World

Letter debate

Arts, Culture & Media

In response to a new PR campaign by the US Poster Service, Fair Game’s Ed Herro and Jessica Vitkus debate the merits of old-fashioned letter writing.