A collection of 89 posts
Either universities appoint and promote professors who display and disseminate intellectual virtues, or they reward those who exemplify and cultivate intellectual vices.
The sad and curious case of the chronic fatigue syndrome.
William J. Mann’s new book about the notorious Black Dahlia case is a valuable corrective to the cottage industry of speculative theories that proliferated after her murder in 1947.
Why artists, academics and others should not exploit the presence of a captive audience.
The Westman school massacre, explained.
The zine community was a haven for all types of free-thinking artists, misfits, and heretics—until online mobs turned it into just another bastion of social-justice groupthink.
The real history of the era portrayed in Gladiator II is much more interesting, tumultuous, and murderous than Scott’s simpleminded yarn.
Nikkitha Bakshani’s debut novel ‘Ghost Chilli’ is an ideologically confused work that seems to endorse the racial essentialism it purports to satirise.
Crowds love the irreverence of The Marvellous Elephant Man Musical, but activists want it boycotted.
Intensive con artistry may be a narcissistic strategy for the avoidance of self-knowledge.
Giles Martin has reinvigorated the Beatles’ masterpiece, a record brimming with ideas, confidence, and insouciant courage.
Dynamite, literature, and the rise of the engaged intellectual.
A widely praised new series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein distorts the historical record to rehabilitate a flawed US president.
How an octogenarian artist defied curatorial bureaucracy.
Adam Curtis’s new BBC series provides a unique insight into Russia’s late-twentieth-century collapse.