Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and a Research Fellow in the Center for International and Comparative Law, and the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore. He has been a Visiting Professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and University of Padua, Italy.
Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and a Research Fellow in the Center for International and Comparative Law, and the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore. He has been a Visiting Professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and University of Padua, Italy.
From Robert De Niro’s masterful performance, to its influence on the neo-noir genre of filmmaking, few movies in American cinematic history have been as lauded as much as Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. The Descent of Travis Bickel Taxi Driver (1976) tells the story of Travis Bickel (Robert De Niro), a 20-something alienated and psychologically troubled […]
What do Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Diaz, and Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe all have in common? Not only are they well-respected artists, musicians, photographers, and poets, with partnerships that led to a considerable body of impactful work, but their initial introduction was through a random encounter on a subway […]
Over the past two decades, tech billionaire Elon Musk—pivotal in the creation of PayPal, and founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, as well as owner of Twitter (now X)—has been both lavishly praised and sharply criticized. Many tech aficionados, consider Musk to be a genius and similar to the Starship Enterprise, in the television series […]
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The Lasting Significance of Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER
/by Jeffrey Ian RossFrom Robert De Niro’s masterful performance, to its influence on the neo-noir genre of filmmaking, few movies in American cinematic history have been as lauded as much as Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. The Descent of Travis Bickel Taxi Driver (1976) tells the story of Travis Bickel (Robert De Niro), a 20-something alienated and psychologically troubled […]
Subway Platforms, Serendipity, and the Power of Chance Encounters
/by Jeffrey Ian RossWhat do Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Diaz, and Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe all have in common? Not only are they well-respected artists, musicians, photographers, and poets, with partnerships that led to a considerable body of impactful work, but their initial introduction was through a random encounter on a subway […]
Anti-Musk Graffiti & Street Art as a Rejection of Power, Capitalism, and Celebrity
/by Jeffrey Ian RossOver the past two decades, tech billionaire Elon Musk—pivotal in the creation of PayPal, and founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, as well as owner of Twitter (now X)—has been both lavishly praised and sharply criticized. Many tech aficionados, consider Musk to be a genius and similar to the Starship Enterprise, in the television series […]