The Chicago-based creative explores loneliness, alienation and identity in his episodic feature that had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. By Georg Szalai Global ...

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s ...

At a loss to explain the spate of fatal school shootings in recent years, some educators and social scientists have turned to that eternal plague of childhood, bullying. The chances of eradicating ...

Political alienation is a profound sense of estrangement or disconnection from the political system and its processes. It manifests in various ways, including apathy, distrust, and a feeling of ...

Many powerful works of art across various media—movies, plays and novels—grapple with one of the key challenges of our time: the decline of the traditional pillars of identity, meaning and happiness, ...

When the dance begins, they are all onstage together. But they are each very much alone. In the opening vignette of Anna Sokolow’s “Rooms,” there are eight chairs scattered across the stage and eight ...

Seth Kaplan, an expert on fragile states, will be at CivicCon to explain how we can fight discontent and decline by getting to know our neighbors.

Aging, an inevitable part of the human experience, is often accompanied by significant social, psychological, and physical changes. The concept of alienation, a term originally rooted in Marxist ...

That wave of text messages instructing Black people to be ready to report for cotton picking at the nearest plantation was a grotesque coda to an anxious election season for Black voters.