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From the Archives | Monday, September 9, 2019
When the first issue of The Observer was released in 1966, the Scene department didn’t exist. It’s not that our journalistic predecessors hated art — quite the opposite, actually. Early editions of The Observer included detailed analyses of literature, theatre and art exhibitions. These articles just lacked a formal category. However, The Observer’s earliest scribes
Colleen Fischer | Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Most generations have a defining comedy, and none is more notorious than “M*A*S*H.” As legend has said, the sewer system in New York failed because so many people went to flush their toilets during the commercial break of the show’s finale. During this weekend, I watched a couple of episodes and I was taken aback
Jeremy Cappello Lee | Friday, April 10, 2015
Addressing a standing-room-only audience, Judith Butler, professor of comparative literature at University of California at Berkeley, gave a lecture titled “The Ethics and Politics of Non-Violence” on Thursday night at McKenna Hall Conference Center as part of the annual Yusko Ward-Phillips Lecture series. Butler said it is not only difficult to define non-violence with certainty, but
Hannah Eckstein | Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Reed Wood, assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University’s School of Politics and Global Studies, discussed the role and impact of women in armed conflict in a lecture Tuesday at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. His research is one of the first large-scale systematic data collection of women’s participation in combat. Wood,
Stephen Raab | Thursday, October 9, 2014
The Obama administration has overseen an eightfold increase in the number of attacks flown by unmanned aerial vehicles or “drones.” These small, pilotless aircraft have become popular with the U.S. Air Force for their ability to take on dangerous missions deep inside hostile territory while keeping American servicemen out of harm’s way. Yet the American