Culture

A mandatory “structural racism” class at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA led a prayer to Mother Earth, which disturbed some who attended the lecture.  The UCLA Jewish...

LONDON — It was no April Fool’s joke. Harry Potter author-turned culture warrior J.K. Rowling kicked off the month with an 11-tweet social media thread in which she deliberately misgendered...

Christopher Durang, the playwright whose comedies viciously merged the satirical with the surreal, died at his Pennsylvania home on Tuesday night. He was 75. The cause was complications from logopenic...

Until now, Sheila Sundar has oscillated between two of the great loves of her life—balancing her devotion to education with her desire to become a novelist. She began her career...

The first Broadway production in nearly 25 years of Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town will open in September, featuring a raft of stars of stage and screen, including Katie...

Georgia’s government is reviving a controversial bid to brand charities, pressure groups and opposition media outlets as agents of foreign influence. The move comes just over a year after the...

The University of Texas at Austin fired dozens of employees who worked in their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to comply with a new state law, according to a...

At first, the YouTube videos look like scenes from Nickelodeon’s popular “SpongeBob SquarePants” cartoon.  SpongeBob, the title cheery yellow character, appears outside his pineapple-shaped home, while Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob’s cranky...

Residents are up in arms about a plan to shelter hundreds of migrants inside a former Boston-area veterans’ shelter, according to the New York Post. “I can’t believe the Chelsea...

But the writer born in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe did not pen her first book until she was nearly 40, and it triggered a controversy that saw authorities in...