KPIX-TV documentary film from 1966 about the American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky. Features extended interviews with Alinksy at his home in Carmel, California on wide ranging issues such as poverty, injustice, ...

In this short book (downloaded from the Internet Archive, Susan Sontag looks at how we conceptualize serious illnesses, particularly tuberculosis in the 19th century and cancer in the 20th century. "Illness as Metaphor" ...

This article discusses the work of the writer, Norman Mailer, who died in 2007, in the context of his Judaism. The author claims that, although Jews do not typically identify Mailer as a Jew, in the same way they do Bernard ...

This article argues that a common theme underlying the Coen Brothers' work is a fierce, uncompromising morality. Click on the link to read the article.

Review of “Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer,” by Arthur Lubow (Ecco). Includes a portrait of Arbus. Click on the link above to access the review.

Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize Lecture delivered on 8 December 2008 at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. In it he discusses the ides that led to him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Click on the link above to ...

Joseph Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. He shared the prize with George Al Akelof and Michael Spence. Their research for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize focused on the interrelationship between ...

An interview with journalist Barbara Frum by Mike McManus of TV Ontario (TVO), in which she discusses her attitudes towards journalism. Click on the link above to access the interview.

An early work by the noted linguist, Leonard Bloomfield. Click on the icon below to access a pdf version of the book.

Short biography of the noted songwriter, Irving Berlin. Click on the link above to access the biography.