Perspectives

Rather than limiting the understanding of his work, accounting for Gorey’s queerness invites viewers of his art and readers of his work into deeper communion with the artist – and themselves, writes Liz Wolfson.

The dynamic and creative quality of the United States is in no small part the result of the dynamism of its colleges and universities. Most of this research is neither left nor right, red nor blue, but in the interest of all Americans and the country as a whole. To lose its vitality and effectiveness would be nothing short of a national tragedy, writes Mark Rank.

Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard against anti-deportation protesters is sadly familiar after other attacks on the First Amendment, writes Greg Magarian.

Joel Seligman discusses Stephen H. Legomsky’s radical call for restructuring the American republic.

The rise of identity politics and a growing taste for transgression have eroded the taboo against antisemitism across the political spectrum, writes Mark Oppenheimer.

Hysell Oviedo, the Roger M. Perlmutter Career Development Assistant Professor of Biomedical Research

By attacking disparate impact theory, Trump not only signals that the persistent racial inequalities still visible in American society do not concern him, he is also showing that he intends to gut the very civil rights laws that were meant to dismantle those inequalities, writes Pauline Kim.

“The Eye,” a new medical humanities podcast hosted by WashU’s Rebecca Messbarger, recently launched on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The current actions of the Trump administration show how government can silence speakers without censoring them, writes Gregory Magarian.

When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry, I often imagine what he would’ve done if he had a smartphone and an Instagram account, writes doctoral student Trevin Corsiglia.