Arts & Letters Daily search results for “community” (19)
2013-07-09 | The tyranny of rectilinearity. Historically, round buildings have fostered community and democracy. Consider an architecture without right angles more »
2022-03-05 | A toxic commercialism has invaded the public sphere. Facebook, Twitter, Substack — who owns your intellectual community? more »
2021-07-31 | Fernando Pessoa, who hated groups, eventually embraced a community: the world’s solitary, ill-adapted, invisible people more »
2012-11-23 | The denizens of writing workshops speak of readers and poets as "a mutually respectful community." Nonsense. They confuse poetry with social work more »
2017-05-10 | Writers once sought silence, exile, and cunning. Today they seek dialogue, community, and workshopping. What's lost when writers are afraid to stand alone? more »
2017-03-01 | Is writing about the arts self-indulgent in a time of political upheaval? No. Cultural criticism is a community service more »
2011-01-01 | 'Rootless but disciplined, a black man joins a religious community that he ultimately outgrows. It''s Malcolm X''s story. Barack Obama''s, too' more »
2012-08-19 | Raised in an anarchist utopian community, Gilbert Seldes never lost his sympathy for the radical fringe, the pseudoscientific, the ridiculous or faddish more »
2010-01-01 | Politics, power, and control have no legitimate role in our community, says one mathematician. When they encroach on research, for instance on the Poincaré conjecture more »
2011-01-01 | Will English find itself in the service of the world community forever? Given how easily languages can be dethroned, this seems an unlikely prospect more »
2019-03-13 | Street art used to be about anti-establishment activism, punk rock, and community spirit. Now it's the handmaid of consumerism more »
2017-08-12 | The 19th-century Faithist community of Shalam had bold plans for expansion. But a problem loomed: amateur metaphysicians had little aptitude for physical labor more »
2010-01-01 | When Mike Penner decided to change his sex, he became a symbol of courage for the transgender community. Then it all went wrong more »
2010-01-01 | 'Loyalty to your workers, customer care, and giving back to the community made Baton Rouge''s favorite department store, created by Jews who fled the Nazis' more »
2016-10-26 | Complaining has become an art form, a way of life, and, for the Tate Modern, a bizarre and misguided strategy for "community engagement" more »
2022-12-14 | Isolation, loneliness, and a “friendship recession.” Robert Putnam was right to worry about the decline of social community more »
2021-08-05 | Napoleon ended up on St. Helena. But some of his loyalists landed in Alabama, where they built a utopian community devoted to viniculture more »
2011-01-01 | How unlikely: a small community of intellectuals in a corner of 18th-century Europe changed world history. They not only wanted progress, they figured out how to attain it more »
2018-05-12 | “The evil opinions and acts of Baruch de Spinoza.” At the age of 23, the future philosopher was expelled from his Jewish community. What had he done? more »