Why should everybody get fired at least once? As the former Editor-in-chief of American Vogue, how does Anna Wintour use fashion as a cultural and economic…
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Another narrow escape from the high life.I once held an original Brancusi marble sculpture worth perhaps several million dollars! It wasn’t my idea, really. The owner,…
Rollo MayI once had dinner with some good friends in Oakland, CA. They told me they had invited over someone they wanted me to meet. Soon…
“I see a system that, even if it bounces back to “normal,” I have no interest in rejoining, a system that is beginning to come undone.” So says…
As a figurative sculptor I’ve spent much of my life turning over the questions of exploitation in viewing the body. As a male artist, when I…
A couple nights ago I was awakened by an argument outside my open window. It was my neighbor shouting at some guy in a car, apparently…
I was asked recently to address an online group called Design Your Life, about living an authentic life in times when the culture is trying to…
There is a major rot in the heart of American culture that I’ve worried about for some time but that’s rarely recognized. So it was with…
My wife Sam and our 11-year-old daughter Penny came home this week with a surprise: a homeless man. The temperature had dipped to -10 and was plunging toward -35…
It was 1987 when I got a call from a national United Methodist Church committee that wanted to award South African anti-apartheid activist and spokesperson Archbishop…