Sunny Side Up

New, revised and final poster/flyer for next week's roundtable... the talented young designer Kaushal has outdone himself!

My little camera continues to amaze me! Went up to the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine this afternoon to get a photo of Keith Haring...

I should have known better than to think a 2011 ballet setting of Brecht and Weil's "Seven Deadly Sins" costarring Patty LuPon...

Thirty years ago this August (can that be true?) I left home to go to the United World College of the American West, an international baccal...

Remember those islands you can sometimes see from my parents' place in California, here in this image from the Guardian' s great ...

Coming soon! The India China Institute is paying for a Canadian scholar to join what was just a religious studies event, so we get the benef...

Thus H. G. Wells about James Harvey Robinson's 1921 The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform , the firs...

Winter's been gentle here, but in other parts of the world it's clearly a very very different picture. Hundreds have frozen to death...

My Japanese housemate has completed his New York sojourn, and left me with this surprise - a fermenting pot for making nukazuke pickles 糠漬け...

This program has really got its groove on in 2012!

Just heard that Wislawa Symborska, the Polish poet, has died. Here's a poem of hers I've presented here before (in January '0...

A question which came up in Delhi with my friend S, only fully explored today in New York with his wife L: S took me to the divey but delici...

Rising swiftly at 14th and Fifth, the new University Center - 10 stories to go!

Second week of "The New School Century," and we have to start telling a story about The New School! I'm better at taking stor...

After more than a year shrouded by scaffolding , Jefferson Market Public Library is back!

Caught the final performance of "The Enchanted Island," the Metropolitan Opera's revival of the baroque form pastiche, wher...

The first course on religion taught at The New School, Spring 1920.

Reading Dewey's Democracy and Education for Tuesday's class, I'm finding myself thrilled. It's been a while since I've ...

Isn't it delicious! A whole day at home, doing nothing in particular...

It's one of the truisms of religious studies that "Hinduism" was a foreign invention. Before the Brits, indeed before the M...