Nadia Abduljabbar stresses the need to address the similarities between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, considering "different religions as different windows toward Heaven." Nihad Sirees addresses the concept of Jihad in Islam, and the...
Writer and editor Antonino D'Ambrosio reads from his new collection of essays, "Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Politics of Joe Strummer.
D'Ambrosio's essays about the Clash depict the days when punk was much more than just a kind of music. "Let...
Manju Sarkar discusses the topic, "Islam and We," from the perspective of a Bengali whose name doesn't identify him as Muslim and Hindu in a secular country, framing his comments through a history of colonialism and the beginning of Bengali...
On the Campus -- Dean Emeritus Carl E. Seashore -- Alexander and Repass -- Sam B. Sloan -- The Recollections of Darby Smith -- Universities in Crisis -- The Hawkeyes -- The Iowa Lakeside Laboratory -- The Recollections of Darby Smith --...
IN CLASS: Engineering students help equip humans for flight. -- The Flight of a Red-Tailed Angel: As one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, Iowa alumnus Luther Smith played a crucial part in World War II— and also helped wage the battle for racial...
Elena Bossi's discussion of "Writing as Philosophy and Craft" focuses on pseudonymity in fiction, titling her talk "The Names of the Other." Chris Chryssopoulos recalls philosophies of Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, but...