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'Broad Street Review' pairs with the Rep Radio podcast
We know what you need
'Broad Street Review' has been delighting your eyes and mind for the last 10 years. Now we've got something exciting for your ears.
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Religious insults: A simple solution
There oughta be a law!
Some Islamic governments want a ban on insulting religion to be written into international law. But who will draft such legislation? Let me take a whack at it.
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Further thoughts on Young Jean Lee's 'Straight White Men' at InterAct Theatre Company
I come to bury patriarchy, not to praise it
InterAct Theatre Company's straight-white-man-helmed production of Young Jean Lee's 'Straight White Men' has 99 problems, and the truth is one.
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Morley Safer, Ed Rendell, and women
Eyes of the beholder
Two quotations from prominent men went viral in May — one for its profundity, the other for its tactlessness. But which was which?
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Do musicians make great presidents?
If Trump had studied music…
Music produces good citizens, argued the visionary musical pedagogue Shinichi Suzuki. So how many U.S. presidents have mastered a musical instrument? And how did that experience affect their performance in office? The envelopes, please.
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What a week
Race onstage, welcomes, and a goodbye
A look at some of the week's most compelling 'Broad Street Review' posts, with a welcome to some new writers, and a goodbye to one of our dance writers.
Wendy Rosenfieldand Illustration by Mike Jackson
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Campaign slogans for Trump
The ultimate intellectual exercise
How can a candidate with so many negatives persuade most Americans to vote for him? This is no job for an ordinary pundit — it’s a job for Broad Street Review.
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Arts criticism: Decline and fall
Be careful what you wish for
On at least one issue — the role of critics in society — BSR’s new editor Wendy Rosenfield and I were once two trains running in opposite directions. How times have changed.
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Running Broad Street
Two things I thought I'd never do
Broad Street Review's new Editor-in-Chief, Wendy Rosenfield, introduces herself. Read about her history with the website and longer history with its founder, Dan Rottenberg.
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Trump and Putin: Mystery solved
The dog that didn't bark
What explains the Trump-Putin mutual admiration society? Ask Angela Merkel.
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