In the 2014 film Top Five, Chris Rock’s character has set out to make a film called Uprize, about the […]

Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as […]

The 2017 French presidential election is a referendum on globalization. Immigration and international trade have emerged as central […]

“Ambition makes you look pretty ugly,” Thom Yorke sneered on Radiohead’s seminal 1997 album OK Computer. He did […]

Many years ago, I was teaching high school in Gastonia, North Carolina. The senseless, world-destroying catastrophe of the […]

Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 took place long before Donald Trump’s ascension to the White House, but if we […]

At ToM, we have always loved Max Weber’s essay “Politics as a Vocation” — especially, and always, in […]

I am not exactly the world’s most cosmopolitan traveler. I never got on a plane until I was […]