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Oct 10, 2024 | 
artsfuse.org | Robert Mack |Ian Thal
By Robert Steven MackCritic John DiLeo argues that even the Academy Awards can make mistakes. And, in the process, he constructs an alternate history of who should or should not have been Oscar nominees. Not Even Nominated: 40 Overlooked Costars of Oscar-Winning Performances by John DiLeo. G Letters, 320 pages, $33.25. Ostentatious gowns, slick comic monologues, an occasional streaker — the glitzy happenings at the Academy Awards ceremony have made it one of America’s cultural touchstones.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
artsfuse.org | Robert Mack
By Robert Steven MackDrawing on wide-ranging research and personal anecdotes gathered during the time he spent with the company, Robert Pranzatelli navigates us through the insouciance and absurdity of Pilobolus’ past. Pilobolus: A Story of Dance and Life by Robert Pranzatelli. University Press of Florida, 290 pages, illus (paper), $29.95.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Robert Mack
“Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,” declared President Biden in 2020, as the historian Jennifer Burns reminds us in Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Biden may wish to reconsider his assessment. In her latest book, Burns shows how Friedman’s legacy remains central to the pillars of today’s modern economic and political life.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Robert Mack |Kevin Mack
There has been a heated discussion—or rather, several rounds of poisonous name calling—over the issue of freedom of speech on college campuses in recent weeks. This was triggered in the first instance by the reactions of many on the Left to the October 7 attack by Hamas, and then by the actions of university administrators in response. This all came to a head with three university presidents being called before Rep.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Robert Mack |Kevin Mack |Richard Aldous
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Robert Mack |Kevin Mack |Jeffrey Gedmin
Belarusian Vitali Alekseenok went abroad to develop his talent. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 2016 before moving to Germany for further studies at Weimar’s University of Music. A year ago, he won the prestigious Toscanini Conducting Competition in Parma. By that time, Vitali was already enmeshed in politics. After Belarus’ fraudulent election in summer 2020, Vitali traveled home from Germany to join pro-democracy protests in Minsk.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Robert Mack |Kevin Mack |Noah Berlatsky
If one book epitomizes the genre of dystopian literature, it’s probably George Orwell’s 1984. But even dystopias change over time, and from today’s perspective, Orwell’s nightmare future can look a little dilapidated. Orwell could learn a lot, for instance, from Martha Wells’ delightful space adventure Murderbot series. The more recent novels reveal that dystopias are more commonly defined not by the experiences of the relatively privileged and affluent, but by the experiences of the most despised.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Robert Mack |Kevin Mack |Andreas Umland
As Russia’s war against Ukraine approaches its two-year mark, why is there still no negotiated end to it? And importantly, why is there unlikely to be one in the near future? At the least, four circumstances are currently hindering a compromise between Kyiv and Moscow. In March 2014, Russia formally annexed Crimea in order to officially make it part of its pseudo-federation.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Robert Mack |Kevin Mack
American foreign policy has been sucked totally into the dysfunction of our domestic politics, with devastating results for the future world order. Let me put this simply. Ukraine, after fiercely resisting the Russian full-scale invasion for two years, is now in the process of losing the war. The Ukrainian military has simply been running out of ammunition because the United States has cut off further military assistance.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Robert Mack |Kevin Mack
Please join American Purpose on Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. EST for a Zoom conversation with Natan Sharanksy on Ukraine, Gaza, and the west's wider struggle. Jeffrey Gedmin will moderate. Natan Sharansky became a household name during the Cold War. A prominent Soviet dissident, he was sentenced to thirteen years of forced labor. Sharansky was famously released in 1986 in an international prisoner exchange after his succession of hunger strikes and an international campaign on his behalf.
