Also on the program are works by two Boston composers, Hubert Ho and Chao-Jan Chang. Ho, who teaches at Northeastern University, said by e-mail that he first met the members of Konvergence during a Fulbright scholarship in Prague several years ago. Rounding out the bill is a pair of modern classics: Helmut Lachenmann’s “Dal Niente” […]

Ms. Stotsky thinks that all high-school students should be required to take trigonometry and precalculus to be ready for the brave new world of science, technology, engineering and math. Even if the STEM crisis were real, this is not a good idea. Of course, advanced math classes should be offered, but there is no reason […]

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth,” writes Ishmael in Herman Melville classic novel Moby Dick, “I take myself to sea.” Ishmael was not the only one. For hundreds of years, ships have cut the ocean’s salty waves, ferrying Ishmaels by the million between coasts and continents. As this striking data viz shows, their […]

Under normal circumstances, an up-and-coming academic might be pleased to have his work cited by a leading politician in the heat of a major policy debate. Not so Rand Ghayad, who will shortly be receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Northeastern University, and whose research on unemployment was cited admiringly by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in a recent essay about […]

In a few weeks, some of the finest athletes in the world will gather for the quadrennial Winter Olympic festival in Sochi, Russia. The last time the Olympics were held in Russia, it was still the Soviet Union, and the Americans, among other nations, did not send a team to compete. President Jimmy Carter decided […]

Two such proven leaders, Mary Galligan and Stephen Flynn, recently spoke at Deloitte University on the topic of making decisions under pressure to an assembled group of technology executives. Galligan is a retired senior-ranking FBI Special Agent in Charge who supervised some of the FBI’s largest and most high-profile investigations—including the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. She recently […]

The U.S. civil rights movement was one of our country’s most important democratizing efforts. But the United States continues to grapple with how to acknowledge and understand the uglier aspects of its undemocratic past. Scholarship has mostly analyzed Jim Crow’s undemocratic nature by focusing on black disenfranchisement. The coercion and violence that enforced political disenfranchisement […]