FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (11)

HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS

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By Heather Quinlan

02nd
Aug

Wes Craven

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By Joe Alterio

01st
Aug

The YHWH Virus

Moses was obsessed with micro­organisms like yeast... because God is an alien.
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By Joshua Glenn

01st
Aug

Chuck D

During the Reagan Era, CHUCK D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, born 1960), the hard rhymer, gave us “My Uzi Weighs a Ton,” “Prophets of Rage,”...
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By Tom Nealon

31st
Jul

Put Down that Web!

A COLLEGE WHERE I do a bit of teaching just sent me an email announcing the formation of a “social media working group” whose...
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By Matthew Battles

31st
Jul

Hilary Putnam

HILARY PUTNAM (born 1926) is the most important philosopher you’ve never heard of. In an era when most theorists build their careers by limning...
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By Peggy Nelson

30th
Jul

Thorstein Veblen

“The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture….” That first phrase from...
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By Joshua Glenn

30th
Jul

Rorschach Revealed

WHAT DO YOU think it means? The New York Times reported yesterday that some psychologists were feeling panicky about physician James Heilman’s decision to...
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By Matthew Battles

29th
Jul

Don Marquis

Novelist, poet, and newspaper man DON MARQUIS (1878-1937) was once a household name. Now he is mostly remembered for his Archy and Mehitabel story-poems....
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By Mimi Lipson