Popular Culture
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Mohammed movie embassy attacks: Don’t let Internet videos drive you to violence. – Slate Magazine
Congratulations, rioters. You followed the script perfectly. You did the propagandists’ work for them. via Mohammed movie embassy attacks: Don’t let Internet videos drive you to violence. – Slate Magazine. Continue reading
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Killing the Liberal Arts… A Non-Conservation
The importance of the humanities in educating citizens is why we have undoubtedly seen the consequences of the decline in of the liberal arts nowhere more than in the quality of the public debate. The disappearance of the liberal arts… Continue reading
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The Corporate Capitalist Gamble: American’s will “venture” for Mitt
Romney’s suggestion that only business owners should occupy the White House was hardly surprising; it just reinforced the reverence for builders of small businesses manifested in the Republican gathering in Tampa. But it is a curious claim nonetheless. For most… Continue reading
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How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
Well, I will tell you what interests me, what I consider important. I can’t claim to be an authority on anything, but I can honestly say that certain matters absolutely fascinate me, and that I write about them all the… Continue reading
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The uncanny valley of Internet advertising: Why do creepy targeted ads follow me everywhere I go on the Web? – Slate Magazine
If you ask an Internet ad guy to defend himself—to explain why you, dear Web surfer, should feel comfortable letting him serve you ads based on everything you do online—you’ll likely hear two arguments. First, he’ll tell you that targeted… Continue reading
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Romney, Ryan, and The Devil’s Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul?
Budgets are moral documents. National, state, and local budgets are commitments about where and how to carry out the work of America’s soul, or to abandon it. A national budget that abandons the Public and the freedoms it gives us… Continue reading
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Garbage and Gravitas Continued
I would like to thank my good brother & cherished cousin Carl Beck Sachs for this longer quote from Adorno which really nicely situates the article on Ayn Rand that I posted a while ago. I think it really speaks… Continue reading
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Afraid of the Dark and Loving It: Guillermo del Toro’s Idol, H.P. Lovecraft – Fandor – Essential films. Instantly!
The life and work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, which includes hugely influential stories like “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Call of Cthulhu” – are treated by his acolytes like the stuff of cult lore. Lovecraft’s xenophobia and propensity… Continue reading
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Book Review: John Cage biography explores Zen Buddhist influence » TCPalm.com
In a new biography of this pioneering artist, art critic Kay Larson links Cage’s daring presentation of “the sound of no sound” to his growing interest in Eastern religion, particularly Zen Buddhism, at a time of personal crisis in the… Continue reading
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Singularity & Plurality
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning… Continue reading
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Discipline & Control
An op/ed piece by David Brooks accidentally (i suppose) lays out the very differences within the distinction DISCIPLINE vs. CONTROL. Brooks musings point out the hierarchical structure of book reading. That there are books which are perennial as well as… Continue reading
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