The Debate: Is Shakespeare elitist?
by @cityam
@cityam— To celebrate the Bard's birthday, our opinion desk and lifestyle desk go head to head to battle out Shakespeare's enduring legacy.
Zócalo Public Square—Who Is Shakespeare For?. “What do we do with Shakespeare?” “Who is Shakespeare for?” “What would it look like to reject Shakespeare?” These were questions I put at the center of the Pop Culture Shakespeare class I taught in the summer of 2020, and which I’ll return to this fall. Four hundred and sixty years after the Bard’s birth (nearly to the day, we like to imagine), people have answered these questions many times over. But working with my students taught me that one powerful way to understand Shakespeare today is as...
WANE 15—Indiana Debate Commission to host final GOP gubernatorial debate. INDIANAPOLIS -- The majority of the Republican candidates running for Indiana Governor are expected in a Tuesday evening debate hosted by the Indiana Debate Commission, the last one before next month's primary. The debate will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday and be streamed out of this story. The debate will be moderated by Jon Schwantes, []
The Washington Times—Incubate Debate takes on 'woke' National Speech and Debate Association. Last November, Incubate Debate asked me to help prepare students for a debate on immigration policy. These kids didn’t start with any preconceptions.