In 1937, Patricia Douglas was brutally raped at an
MGM party. The film studio was all-powerful, and though she brought
a federal lawsuit against them, her case was strong-armed out of
existence and was forgotten until six decades later, when filmmaker
David Stenn happened upon a newspaper article about Douglas and
began...
The Maasai people of Kenya are living in two worlds.
Their traditional practices, governance, and language are all very
much alive. At the same time, they are using technology to do
things like conserving wildlife, and they are banning obsolete
customs like underage marriage and female genital mutilation.
Sam Bowles is an economist and a Research Professor at
the Santa Fe Institute. Wendy Carlin is a Professor of
Economics at University College London. They're giving a
community lecture called After Trump and Brexit: A New
Economics (Forget Red and Blue), on Tuesday, July 17, at 7:30
at the Lensic Performing Arts Center...