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A cultural studies’ approach may promote religious harmony.

Joan Baez singing to a sold-out audience in Albany, New York, at the Egg Performing Arts Center in 2016. (Wikimedia Commons/Jim Gilbert) More than a decade ago, I wrote to the chair of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, expressing my hope that that year, 2010, would be the one in which Joan Baez would be one of the honorees for the centers annual award for the performing arts. "She has used her gifts fully," I wrote, noting that she had given more than 40 concerts a y...

It’s time to help make peace. That starts with education. Courtland Milloy Noted pacifist Colman McCarthy didn’t get to teach his peace studies class at American University this semester because of coronavirus school disruptions. So, I called him for a crash course to share with readers, figuring we could all use a lesson in peacemaking these days. Homicides and aggravated assaults are on the rise, in both the D.C. area and the nation. Stress continues to build over hea...