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Blowing things up for a living
Cai Guo-Qiang wants to open “a dialogue with the universe.” This is not hyperbole. The Chinese artist is courting an audience of extraterrestrials… more»
Barbed gift of leisure
Free time, time not dedicated to work, is dangerous because it forces us to decide what to do with it. When leisure is robot-enabled, the danger is double… more»
Rodgers and Hart’s dysfunctional partnership
Before Rodgers ran with Hammerstein, he worked with Lorenz Hart – a generous, ebullient gnome of a man, and a desperate drunk… more»
An A from Nabokov
Professor Nabokov had one rule for students in his Lit 311 course at Cornell University: No one could leave, not even to use the bathroom… more»
Anti-Judaism
Within a few hundred years of Jesus’ death, the language of anti-Judaism was pervasive among Christian intellectuals. We are still absorbing the implications… more»
John Jeremiah Sullivan on animals
Animals, said Descartes, “eat without pleasure, cry without pain, grow without knowing it; they desire nothing, fear nothing, know nothing.” A century of science says otherwise… more»
Left-wing stranglehold on academia
Neil Gross has gathered the data, and now the results are in. College professor is the most-liberal occupation in America. Surprised, right?… more»
An interview with Jaron Lanier
Ego and algorithm. Jaron Lanier looks at fellow techies and sees great talent and great smugness. “Hacker superiority complex,” he calls it… more»
Calvin Trillin at Time magazine
Tears, booze, sexual tension, idiosyncratic prose. Academic conference? No, Time magazine in the 60s… more»
The business of literature
The business of literature is chaotic. Always been that way. Technology evolves, but the question remains: What is the value of a book?… more»