Strong Opinions
When critics start issuing dictates, they end up excluding broad swathes of art and culture as well as whole areas of human experience.
Stephen Akey
· 10 min read
Criticism
A collection of 7 posts
Born to Boss
Springsteen and the rock critics.
David Cohen
· 14 min read
Analyst or Moralist?
The increasingly political nature of cultural criticism does a disservice to the arts, to artists, and to criticism itself.
James Jackson
· 11 min read
Burgis on Hitchens—Getting Radicalism Wrong
I anticipated a more thoughtful exploration of Christopher Hitchens’s political history and relevance than what Ben Burgis provided.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
Inflammatory Anti-Racism
The fear of being branded with one of the most deadly contemporary sins has generally ensured a pusillanimous collapse by corporations, institutions, and individuals.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
A Toast to Randolph Bourne
There is much we can learn from Bourne, not only from his joie-de-vivre, his ideas about cultural diversity and disability, but perhaps most of all, from his toughness, his willingness to criticize associates.
Russell Jacoby
· 7 min read
Are Activists Protecting Asians from Hate—or Protecting Their Narrative of White Supremacy from Criticism?
But often it seems that means and end have become reversed, and that these crimes now serve as a prop in the larger ideological campaign against our supposedly white-supremacy-saturated culture—a campaign that Asians themselves are now being pressured to join.
Hai Di Nguyen
· 11 min read