Perspectives

Elizabeth Hunter, a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, discusses her book project “In the Story: Space and Spectatorship from Theatron to Augmented Reality,” and how directors connect with the audience, from Shakespeare’s time through today.

Crime is political. It was designed to be. And it perhaps it should be, writes the law school’s Sheldon Evans.

Notable are performances in ancient Greek at Columbia/Barnard and in English translation at the University of Vermont. These performances indicate how much Greek theater has in common with modern musical theater on Broadway and around the world today, writes Timothy Moore.

Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield, in Arts & Sciences, writes about how an organization’s culture can help Black employees feel welcome and valued. She recently published “Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It.”

Dan Zettwoch, a cartoonist and a lecturer at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, was the illustrator of the recent book “Missouri Weird and Wonderful,” offering tidbits on sports, music, food and more for curious kids of all ages.

if you’re wondering how to implement AI in your business, talking to your team about it might be the best place to start, writes Olin Business School’s Dennis Zhang.

“After 9/11, we often heard the phrase ‘this changes everything,’ writes WashU’s Krister Knapp, who teaches courses in U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy. For Israelis, Hamas’s recent attack against Israeli citizens “signal a similar paradigmatic shift.”

Domestic cats may evolve into the alpha predators of the future, according to biologist Jonathan Losos in Arts & Sciences.

Eileen G’Sell, a writer, critic and senior lecturer in Arts & Sciences, writes an article about the Taylor Swift “Eras Tour” movie and the group experience of watching it.

As Russia slips further into the role of a junior partner of China in material terms, its heroic, messianic narrative will play an increasingly important role as it calls for respect and power, writes James Wertsch for the Wilson Center. The danger for the Kremlin is that it will overplay this self-image of global leadership and appear defensive and arrogant in the eyes of Beijing—which in the end is a poor foundation for a no-limits relationship.