In this clear-minded but sobering book, Michael M. Kaiser assesses the current state of arts institutions – orchestras; opera, ballet, modern dance, and theater companies; and even museums. According to Kaiser, new developments in the twenty-first ce...

In the third book of his popular trilogy on creating and sustaining arts organizations, Michael Kaiser reveals the hidden engine that powers consistent success. According to Kaiser, successful arts organizations pursue strong programmatic marketing c...

The nation's thirty-first state emerged early as one of its most diverse as people immigrated to the west. California's indigenous tribes were forced off their lands first by Spanish settlers, then by the arrival of gold miners from every corner of t...

Religious women in liberal democracies are "dual citizens" because of their contrasting status as members of both a civic community (in which their gender has no impact on their constitutional guarantee of equal rights) and a traditional religious co...

According to Jewish law, the ritual practice of circumcising male infants signals the male child's entry into the covenant his forefather Abraham made with God. Circumcision, now a common medical procedure for male infants in the United States, has c...