John Gutman, retired sociology lecturer, Hunter College What makes a society endure or collapse? Explore this question through four influential works: Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, 1984, and Brave New World. Examine how essential institutions — government, law, education, and social norms — shape the stability and character of imagined societies. Consider how the […]

Michael C. Gabriele, author Step into the lively world of colonial taverns, where politics, debate, and daily life intersected. Often called the “Crossroads of the Revolution,” New Jersey’s taverns served as meeting places, military headquarters, and centers of revolutionary thought. Discover how these spaces brought together Patriots and Loyalists and helped shape the ideas that […]